REGARDING your article (LET, April 10) on prostitution on the Lidl supermarket car park in King Street, Blackburn, why is it that when businesses are affected by this problem the matter is dealt with in great urgency?

But what about the residents of this area, do we not count, although we pay our council tax?

What about the huge number of people with properties in negative equity, thanks to articles highlighting the fact that we are living in a red light district?

We are told we are in a property boom -- but not around here, thanks to the council.

There is a large proportion of families with children in this area. I do not let my seven and eight year olds play out for fear of what might happen.

If the problem had been dealt with correctly in the first place, then there would still be prostitutes working around business premises in the town centre.

But the owners pay business rates and don't want to sweep up condoms and remove drug-users' needles, so closed-circuit TV cameras were put in place and this then moved the prostitutes into a residential area.

The police say they are dealing with the problem, but why then are prostitutes working at 3.30pm when young children are on their way home from school? Why does Blackburn with Darwen Council not put cameras up around this area to stop the prostitutes and other criminals? Kings Road at Mill Hill has cameras.

Or maybe we could move the prostitutes to the Cherry Tree area of Blackburn -- Somehow, I think, the problem would be dealt with straight away.

I was brought up to believe that if you work, you will reap the rewards. What a joke! I am now putting my beloved home on the market -- at a huge loss, I might add, along with other residents to start again in a respectable area.

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