YOU reported (LET, August 29) that Blackburn Town Hall are going to demolish the unpopular crime-ridden multi-storey flats in Mill Hill, Queen's Park and Larkhill.
I live in a multi-storey flat and the thought of someone pulling it down fills me with dread -- they're great.
Going back over 70 years, I remember living in a terrace in the style of battery hens, with an outside toilet. I also remember the town hall building new houses in various places -- like the ones at Roman Road, a large number of which finished up empty and boarded-up.
So when are the council and others going to acknowledge that a slum is a person, not a building and that the trouble stems from the fact we cannot control crime.
To demolish all those flats is criminal folly.
What may be popular today may not be tomorrow.
Get rid of the yob mentality and you'll have no problems. High-rise flats are great.
LEN RUSHTON, St Michael's Court, Blackburn.
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