SIR - The Council’s Executive approved the closure of four of the Council’s Customer Service Centres in a cost cutting plan. This is a front line service which is much needed and well used but once again the needs of Bradford’s communities are overlooked.

We then hear that the two remaining centres will have a change of focus with visitors directed to a self-service area.

Progress indeed in providing for the needs of those less able in our communities who need help.

Bingley lost its council shop together with the full-time town centre manager some time ago and the mismanagement of the town’s Market Square has seen it reduced to a handful of stalls, sometimes as few as two or three after considerable expenditure on the square itself.

Bingley residents must wonder what they are receiving for their council tax payments. The council recently approved the building of 440 new houses on land at Sty Lane once again ignoring the views of the residents of Bingley.

I could go on but I think the Elected Reprentatives need to start practicing what they preach.

Tony Culley, Nicholson Close, Bingley