IN the Lancashire Evening Telegraph (November 13), it states that health chiefs are hoping to sell off Park Lee Hospital (pictured) to developers to build houses.
Undoubtedly, when the BRI closes in ten years time, that will go the same way.
I think it is outrageous when houses get preference over hospitals, so that developers can make a killing.
Look at all the vacant properties on housing estates and all the houses at present under construction.
I fail to see the need for more houses.
In my opinion, the new additions to Queen's Park will not compensate for the loss of these two hospitals.
We are losing two perfectly good hospitals when the list for surgery and the waiting lists are long. The sale of these perfectly good buildings will benefit the developers, not the public.
J F SMITH, Leeds Close, Blackburn.
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