Inquiry will be interesting

5:23pm Thursday 14th February 2008

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LITTER collection throughout most of Appleton is of a high standard with a litter warden often employed to collect almost every scrap of litter deposited on the roads and lanes throughout the parish.

However, despite the Barleycastle Trading Estate being responsible for a very large contribution to the council taxes, Barleycastle Lane is by far the filthiest road in Appleton if not the whole of Warrington, with very many thousands of pieces of litter strewn across the grass verges, footpath and hedges.

Yesterday, Sunday morning, my wife, who has rheumatoid arthritis, spent about two hours collecting several large sackfuls of rubbish including about 30 drink cans and beer bottles from the 300 metre stretch of Barleycastle Lane immediately alongside Oaklegh Lodge Farm.

Only trees restricting access visibility prevent the Liberal Democrat council giving planning consent to travellers on a green belt site near the end of Barleycastle Lane. However, the travellers remedied this problem within a week of the planning meeting by cutting down the offending mature trees, thereby adding to global warming. The proposed public inquiry should be interesting.

DR MICHAEL MADDEN Appleton