SIR – The recent news that Bradford Council have ‘lost’ letters objecting to the Odeon planning applications, and that the Ombudsman is now investigating the validity of the whole affair, is just a further indictment of the Council’s refusal to listen to those who elected them. Their handling of these matters seems to be at best highly incompetent and, at worst, malpractice.

Tony Reeves’s explanation about objections being ‘comments’ won’t wash either. The letters I and many others wrote (all of which may well be ‘lost’ now, for all I know) quite clearly constituted quite positive objections and were not just comments.

Thank you, by the way, for including in your newspaper on Monday, February 3, the small photograph showing the beautiful interior of the Gaumont as it was when Buddy Holly performed there in 1958.

It is worth reminding everyone that much of the infrastructure shown on that photograph is still there, mainly intact, and not divided up by brick and concrete, but as Ms Eleanor Sunderland reminded us in her letter some weeks ago, mainly just studwork and plasterboard, easily and inexpensively removed.

Gordon Dean, Long Lane, Harden, Bingley