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Your letters, April 15
Your opinions, April 15
Park and ride would help
Dear editor, Alex Green (Guardian March 4) suggested several positive ideas for addressing the problems of parking at Chorley Railway Station.
Michael Prescott (Guardian March 18) added walking and cycling which are good and practical for some people.
I would like to add another idea. I have long wondered if some of the space at Botany Bay could be used for a park-and-ride scheme to relieve parking problems at both the town centre and Chorley hospital with all the attendant frustration that both cause.
The long-awaited Buckshaw Railway Station would help too but will it ever move from bureaucracy to reality?
John Thompson
Euxton Lane
Euxton
Town centre is a priority
Dear editor, I wanted to follow your article on page three (Guardian April 8) about the meeting between town centre business people with a simple plea.
Chorley Council takes the management and development of the town centre extremely seriously.
It is one of our top priorities and, bearing in mind the current economic climate, is set to remain so for quite some time.
We've earmarked nearly 1.5m as part of the town centre strategy, which includes marketing and environmental improvements.
The council hosts its own regular town centre meetings and workshop sessions throughout the year, when everyone involved is invited, have their say and thrash out solutions.
The council is 100 per cent committed to this process and I would encourage as many people with an interest to get involved, set the agenda and make sure their voice and ideas are heard.
Individual traders and businesses breaking off to set up their own meetings to discuss issues between themselves is not the way forward and will only lead to division within the town centre at a time when it has never been more important to stand together.
I'd like to see these 'splinter' groups set aside in favour of a bigger meeting where everyone can have their say and help protect Chorley from any future threat.
Coun Peter Malpas
executive member (business)
Chorley Council
Government swim plan
Dear editor, as a pensioner I am delighted that the government has introduced free swimming for the over 60s.
I am sure those aged under 16 are also happy that they can swim free of charge thanks to this initiative, which is driven by the government's aim to improve lifestyles for people of all ages.
However, I am a little confused that our local council appear to be claiming credit for introducing this scheme.
The free swimming scheme for those aged 60 and over and 16 and under is funded from central government coupled with a 25,000 contribution from the Primary Care Trust.
I hope this clarifies the situation.
Joe Welch
Address supplied
Parking is appalling
Dear editor, the parking outside Chorley Health Centre in Collison Avenue is appalling.
I am a new mum and really struggle to park outside in order to make my appointment on time.
In the last month I have received three parking tickets as I have to park on double yellows.
My son is in a car seat and I carry him in that to the centre - which is a struggle because he's putting on weight.
He was born by emergency Caesarean so I should not really be carrying him. I feel the council should get their priorities sorted. If they had to go through what I do then I know they'd sort it out.
Name and address supplied
So proud of Amanda
Dear editor, on behalf of my wife and myself, I would like to express my delight on seeing in the (Guardian April 1) two small articles regarding our daughter Amanda.
I would like to congratulate you on being the only newspaper ever that has used the word 'integrity' when commenting on her.
As parents we are obviously proud of her, and her achievements as an artist.
But apart from her immediate family and close friends, not all that many people know her as a person.
If you will allow me I'd like to 'plug' something behalf of Amanda, whos is a committed Christian.
She is an active member of a small baptist church in Bluntisham, Cambridgeshire and the church is attempting to raise 650,000 for improvements.
Mandy offered her services for a concert, which took place on September 20, in front of 300 people.
The night before she was singing in the opening night of Verdi's Otello in front a capacity audience in Cardiff.
The day after the church concert she was helping to serve tea and biscuits to the churchgoers after the morning service.
It is these actions and qualities that make us doubly proud of our daughter. I hope you can appreciate how important the word 'integrity' is to us.
The 'plug' that I mentioned is that the church turned themselves into an independent recording company and recorded the whole concert.
It was the same sort of concert, as your article mentions, which she gave in 1993 in Chorley to raise money for her primary school.
A double CD is on sale at 10 inc p&p only from either the church or us. We can be contacted on v3rrr@tiscali.co.uk or 01257 791666.
R Roocroft
Claytongate, Coppull
Greenhouse in Wisconsin
Dear editor, I recently received an email from my niece who was born and bred in America.
She tells me that whilst attending a wedding in Kohler, Wisconsin, she visited a restaurant called the Greenhouse.
She said: "The Greenhouse is attached to a hotel called the American Club and it is a small room made of beautiful leaded glass. It turns out that this leaded glass came from a solarium attached to Chorley (Lancashire) hospital and was transported to the USA during World War II for protection during the war."
I wonder if any of your older readers have any recollection of this solarium. Of course it may have been another hospital other than the Chorley and South Ribble. For example Heath Charnock Isolation or Eaves Lane.
It would be interesting to know.
T King
Ashfield Road, Anderton
Speeders are the problem
Dear editor, I am not the biggest fan of speed cameras but I fail to see how the many letters that regularly appear in this column say they are just cash counters for the government.
They rake in less than 2m per annum off mainly blind drivers who can not see the bright yellow boxes at the roadside or the back of the black and yellow stripey van that parks on the roadside.
It's a fraction of the tax that a certain Simon Cowell pays.
The biggest danger from the speed camera is the one posed by cars speeding up to them, braking hard then speeding up after them.
If there is a need for a speed camera and it saves just one life then it is money well spent.
Where there is no need for it, then it should be re-sited near a school or children's nursery where I believe most people would actually respect the job that it is doing.
Lee Taylor
Lostock Hall
'Free for all'
Dear editor, what has become of the parking laws in Chorley?
I used to live in Chorley and it was bad then - now it's a free for all. Cars are parked not just half on half off but totally cover the pavement. It means they have to drive some distance along the path to get on or off.
I had reason to drive to Adlington on Sunday and what a scene. Cars parked on footpaths, in clearly defined no parking areas, the road getting narrower and more dangerous by the yard not mile.
And all for an ice cream at Fredrick's. Is it going to take a serious incident before something is done? Let's get it sorted. It's not rocket science.
Frank Roscoe, Coppull
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