SIR – According to a report in the T&A (December 23), a Keighley resident drew Bradford Council’s attention to a pile of soil dumped, and blocking, the entrance to a public footpath. The Council refused to move it as they did not consider that they were responsible for it being there in the first place.
The report continued that several Council departments had been contacted, and they had carried out “extensive investigations”, but had no idea from where the soil had come.
However, if several departments had indeed carried out “extensive investigations”, then how much has that cost in officers’ time? Quite a lot, surely.
Would it not have been far more cost-effective to simply remove the obstruction at the outset? Is this yet another example of the lack of proper organisation and joined-up thinking by our Council?
Bob Watson, Springfield Road, Baildon
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