WITH regards to the article "My angling firm left dangling on the line" (LET, January 24).

Mr Clarkson is in fact more than justified in his numerous inquiries to the council with regard to the fate of his shop and business on Johnston Street and what will eventually take place under the Elevate scheme.

However, there is most certainly no justification for the executive member for housing Mohammed Khan's answer.

For when Coun Khan states "that no recommended course of action can be taken without the availability of funds," this is not true at all: this council already knows what its plans will be well before any availability of funding is made or otherwise.

So let me put the question to Coun Khan in a somewhat different fashion: What will happen to the good Mr Clark's shop etc., should you receive these funds, sometime as you say, in March 2006?

This council and the dictative executive Coun Khan all know full well what their plans will be should funding be available.

If this was not the case these shops and houses would have been renovated under the previous funding for the rest of Johnston Street, for they all stand in about the middle of it.

The people of Bank Top will soon have their say in the not too distant local elections where this Labour executive is concerned.

J NEWTON (Mr), Ashworth Close, Blackburn.