WHAT is the point of an evening meeting (on November 7) to get people's views about the proposed site for the new Darwen Health Centre if most people can't get to it?

Will the disabled, the ill, the infirm, the elderly and mothers with babies be able to get there?

How can they attend an evening meeting, or any meeting. Will their views be taken into account?

No doubt only those who are active or car owners will be the ones to attend and be quite happy with the prepared site which is at present a football pitch.

This is on Tockholes Road and almost on the outskirts of the town.

And it isn't on a bus route unlike the present health centre. Most people will have two busy roads to cross and hills to climb.

There must be other alternatives to what is proposed.

There is the Technical School in Knott Street and the old school clinic in Union Street, both vacant.

How about moving the youth club in Knott Street to the old school clinic and building the new health centre on the youth club site?

There should be a proper vote and the views of everyone taken into account.

DONALD KIMBERLEY, Duddon Avenue, Darwen.