ALONG with many other protestors, I must add my view of the proposed student accommodation on Cheadle Square. Why that particular place ? Why not the Odeon site, currently a complete eye-sore, or even better, on the Moor Lane site that will be vacant when the new bus station is up and running, or will that too be left as an ugly piece of unused land like others in the town.

The little areas of grass alongside the Square could be made a very pleasant feature, with not a lot of expenditure, and then be somewhere town-centre workers could go to have their lunch. We vote for councillors to act for us, but it seems they prefer to act against the majority. It was said that the petition only represented a small number of the population, but children won't sign, people who don't get the paper might not even know about it, old people can't always get to where petitions are, and others may not understand fully what is intended.

Please, let's have student accommodation elsewhere.Two other suggestions are the old technical collage site, or the wrongfully "destroyed" Clarence Street building site.

D M and S Wood

Bolton