IN REPLY to comments by Mr Wilcox (LET, July 1), what do people want to see that will improve Blackburn centre? More public houses to encourage further disorderly behaviour for our already stretched constabulary to deal with?

Also fast food joints so that disrespectful customers can litter the streets with half-eaten garbage creating extra costs to clean up the mess.

The buildings scheduled for demolition are hardly of architectural value yet the artist's impression of the flats envisaged by Margo Grimshaw certainly are an improvement on what stands there presently.

Encouraging people to live in the town centre should result in an increase in customers in that area, which are sorely needed.

As for Fleming Square, the work carried out recently has certainly improved and enhanced that part of the centre.

The vast majority of the cost of refurbishment of this area was borne by the owners of these premises.

For a town to progress it cannot remain in the 60s or any other era.

The whole centre is in need of regeneration and, as true to form, it is the private investor that sets the standard.

G ECCLES (Mr), Northbank Avenue, Blackburn.