WYRE Borough Council have opened a public exhibition at the Frank Townend Community Centre, Cleveleys, with questionnaires requesting the public's views as to how the promenade at Cleveleys should be developed.

It is really unbelievable that the Wyre Borough Council is requesting the public's views as to whether they want a high cost scheme with very low risk of flooding or a low cost scheme with some flooding.

It should be the Council's responsibility to provide the best possible coastal defences for the area.

Are they again trying to provide the cheapest, less effective methods and blame it on yet another public consultation?

Do people realise that it would be virtually impossible or at an extremely high cost to re-insure properties that once have been flooded.

This is not a matter of the cheapest and prettiest is the best.

We need proper sea-defences for which the council can receive funding.

The promenade facilities are of a secondary nature, what matters are the sea defences.

The council seem to think that an improved promenade area would bring more people into the town.

Have they not noticed how busy it is down Victoria Road West?

When the weather is good people are up on the front -- it is only the elements, which keep them away.

It is also to be remembered that the access roads to the Promenade are very narrow and already over-used.

People of Cleveleys please go to the Frank Townend Community Centre at Cleveleys and request per questionnaire that proper effective sea defences are put into place like those at South Shore Blackpool even if it means that the promenade has less funds available for modernisation.

In the long run anything else would be false economy.

Carole Kampf via e-mail