REGARDING the letter from the chairman and secretary of the Whitebirk Tenants' Association (Letters, March 25), they are quite correct with regard to the council's policy of council house allocation which takes no regard whatsoever of its more long-standing, decent tenants.
The council's complete lack of any real investment in decent tenants and their estates is the root cause of this problem.
Its stubborn policy of throwing good money after bad at certain estates has proved to be a non-starter on several occasions at the expense of what were decent estates with a majority of decent tenants. Those left out have become only fit for any Tom, Dick or Harry. The present policy must quickly change or there will be few decent tenants left.
This will serve only to drive up the ever-increasing cost of both repair and replacement. It is time it changed policy before the electorate change it for them.
MR P NEWTON, (committee member, Bank Top Community Association), Ashworth Close, Blackburn.
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