WHEN the old Manchester Road College was flattened, I wept with emotion.

When I read in the recent council tax funded Bolton Scene that the proposed Academic Village plan for Cheadle Square was on again, I wept again; this time for different reasons.

Through the right hand crescent archway of its front page picture, the savage affront of our Crown Court building said it all. Coupled with the Lego Land / Dove Cote proposal, Bolton Council has unveiled yet more callow nonsense for its town.

Messrs Morris and Holmes may well display while Bolton squirms, yet, with the ghost of the old Market Hall petition still seething, I feel the spirit may still walk the streets.

Decisions of this magnitude should never be left to the vainglorious few. Bolton needs another petition…now!

Mr P Smith

Buckingham Ave,

Horwich