WHATEVER happened to Cllr Pat Hackett's wonderful vision of Sea Bank Road, New Brighton?
For months, he went on about the regeneration he was responsible for in creating a street environment with furniture and iron cast awnings over the shops.
A walk down Sea Bank Road will show quite a different story. No street furniture anywhere to be seen and a lot of the awnings sit in a half-finished state and no sign of any workmen. Yet, magically, all the wonderful and original pavement tiles which dated back to Victorian days have been dug up and probably sold on for a reclamation profit, being replaced with cheap tarmac.
What's going on, Mr Hackett? And why are you using public lottery money to pay for (non) improvements (like road works and pavements) that are supposed to be paid for out of our increasingly rising rates of council tax? If Mr Hackett can't even get a bit of street furniture right, is he really the type of person we want involved in a multi-million pound regeneration of New Brighton?
Rory Wilmer,
Rowson Street, New Brighton.
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