Look at what we have (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Look at what we have

8:53am Friday 3rd February 2012 in Readers' letters By Telegraph & Argus

Sir – Your editorial (T&A, January 26) restores some balance against the rantings of Coun Slater but you fail to expand on this. I agree the aspiration of 45,500 new homes is ridiculous. Bradford is not a city of choice these days.

In a Parliamentary debate (November 8, 2011) involving local MPs Sutcliffe and Ward, it was acknowledged there is pressure on secondary schools in Bradford which also goes against the national trend.

What our politicians are loathe to admit is that over the last decade and more there has been a flight from inner Bradford. Concreting the outlying areas will not solve any inner-city population issues.

Rightly or wrongly, few families can simply up and move from the inner city to the likes of Ilkley and Addingham, unless Coun Slater is going to erect a few tower blocks on Ilkley Moor.

Far better for the Council to show initiative and look at the debate prompted by Channel 4’s The Great British Property Scandal and seek to re-evaluate the housing stock we have already.

Steve Wilson, Lenton Villas, Idle