AFTER reading the letter from David Reed regarding loud music in the Piazza shopping centre and along the Shambles (Examiner, Monday August 27) I also think the volume of the music is too high and should be reduced to a more acceptable level.
Not everyone likes to hear loud music playing – it can be intrusive and shows a lack of consideration for others.
The volume of the music in Kingsgate is acceptable. It can easily be heard by most people and the sound does not dominate the environment.
Please will the manager of the Piazza shopping centre take note of this, reduce the volume of its music and ultimately create a pleasant environment and shopping experience for all.
Barbara Davison
Kirkburton
Driving shoppers away
IN ANSWER to David Reed (Letters Monday, August 27) I couldn’t agree more.
My son and niece (who are young) went to report this intrusive invasion.
Also I went every Saturday morning to the M&S store on the Piazza only to be driven out by the ludicrous rapping music. Not bad to say nobody in the store shopping was under 60.
Mrs Linda Thetney
Salendine Nook
Let’s stop it completely
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY concur with David Reed’s letter about music on the Piazza (Examiner August 27). The music should be banned in toto.
C R Atkinson
Honley
Consultation dismay
SEVERAL weeks ago I wrote to the Examiner asking the council to fulfil its promises to undertake meaningful consultation with library users and the wider community for the borough-wide service review.
Therefore, I was saddened this weekend to find out the limited nature of this planned consultation. What of the open days we were promised where local people would be encouraged to drop in and have their say?
It turns out these are half day events, some such as at Slaithwaite and Golcar barely running to three hours duration!
None will be held after 6.30pm in the evening and only one, at the central library in Huddersfield, is being held on a weekend.
This could effectively exclude anyone who works full-time or has daytime commitments.
I’m sure this is very convenient for the Kirklees employees running these events but hardly so for the community and does little or nothing to rebuild the relationship of trust between the service and library users as had been promised.
We have also been told there will be no publicity for these events beyond posters in the villages and a page on the Kirklees website.
It’s a great shame that the library service did not think ahead to publicise these events in the council’s Together magazine that dropped through my letterbox this morning.
This is scarcely reaching out to library users and (importantly) potential library users, particularly the less mobile, more vulnerable or hard to reach members of our communities.
So it seems it is back to business as usual for Kirklees council.
The people organising this ‘consultation’ should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
Nuala Reilly
Save Slawit Library Campaign
Time to renationalise
BARRY Gibson is absolutely right in suggesting the re-nationalisation of Britain’s railways but then he might have added our energy system which is now controlled principally by German and French companies whose shareholders are enjoying huge profits – all at the ultimate expense of consumers.
Margaret Thatcher left us with a terrible legacy when she privatised our country’s greatest assets and it’s quite dreadful, indeed depressing, that the Labour Party is not seizing the opportunity to rectify this dreadful policy.
M Noble
Brockholes
It wasn’t us
AFTER reading the story about the racist graffiti in Tuesday’s Examiner I was both shocked and disgusted!
We would firstly like to apologise to Mr Bell and his family for any distress this pointless attack may have caused them.
If we could also make it clear that this has nothing to do with the EDL (English Defence League). We in no way accept or condone racism of any type. We are against militant Islam and have many different faiths and backgrounds in our divisions up and down the country.
We will be co-operating with the police and helping in anyway.
If anyone does have any information please contact the police directly or feel free to get in touch with us and we will pass it on for you.
EDL
Huddersfield Division
Wrap us in cotton wool
REGARDING the swing and tree house removed by Kirklees.
The council has megalomaniac tendencies and doesn’t allow the little people who enjoy swings and tree houses to have fun.
May as well wrap black and yellow tape round the whole town.
John Lockwood
Huddersfield
Turbines on the hill
SOME people are still of a mind that a replacement hotel atop Castle Hill is wrong.
My suggestion is that we place two or three wind turbines on the site.
The finances they will generate can be placed into the council’s war chest.
At the same time most of Huddersfield will be able to bathe in all of their glory. Every rotation will be another sum of money helping the people of Huddersfield.
The Green Party can cut the ribbon and at the same time take credit for their long standing love of all things green.
We can at one stroke rid ourselves of the not-in-my-backyard tag as all will be able to share this beautiful sight.
R J Bray
Shelley
Slaithwaite snarl-ups
A SHORT while ago I wrote to the Examiner ‘welcoming’ the news that the former Globe Worsted Mill at Slaithwaite was to receive a long-awaited revamp and hopefully much needed local jobs would be created as a result.
I also stated the dire need for a revised traffic system at the junction of Britannia Road and Carr Lane with additional parking being created for the village’s populous.
Without this forward planning eventually there will be there will be a gridlock of vehicles exiting via Bridge Street, making the infamous roundabout junction even more problematic!
I also acknowledge that after nine weeks of reporting the site badly needed ‘re-whitening’.
At last it seems Kirklees Highways are about to get something done!
Meanwhile, we see no action to manage the future traffic situation, no apparent involvement of our local councillors to ensure this happens and, if motorists and pedestrians consider the nightmare Fridays are between 4pm and 6pm, God help us when the new complex opens and dozens of extra cars alight this ill-devised and nefarious Colne Valley junction.
Alan Knight
Lingards Community Association spokesperson
