REGARDING your article, "Hotel firms pull out of Triangle scheme," (LET, February 18), how can anyone of sane mind justify the waste of time and money on a row of empty derelict terrace houses overlooking the canal and abandoned run-down, old mills?
This is especially so when people are living in pre-war conditions in the town, bringing up children in run-down, two-up, two-down, damp-ridden houses.
To spend half a million pounds of public money renovating listed buildings for some private concern to make a profit out of when other areas of Burnley are in desperate need of a cash flow is surely criminal.
The councillors responsible should be made accountable. Whether the funds came from public purse or not is not the issue.
The fact is this money was to benefit the town. Now, it has been wasted, thanks to some of our futuristic, helpful, public-minded councillors.
JOYCE HARDY, Bristol Street, Burnley.
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