DOES Bolton Council have the guts to publish online all letters of objection to PA 93556 and PA 93554, in which the council is applying to itself to change the Town Hall?

These proposals include irreversible damage to the Town Hall facade, in the implausible hope that an evening cafe culture in Victoria Square will be kick-started on small terraces thus created, at rather large expense.

This part of the proposal has met with universal outrage and dismay in several well-informed letters published, in print and online, in the Bolton News.

But letters of objection sent to the Council are not as readily accessible. Publication online has been discontinued. Objection letters to the Council can now only be inspected, by appointment, during office hours, at the Council’s One Stop Shop. It's like the locked filing cabinet in The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, funny if it wasn't so sad!

A few minutes checking online each day has been transformed, for the public and councillors alike, to a daily physical trip to the Town Hall. This is an impossibility for residents who are in work.

Please, can all letters about the Town Hall schemes be published online, so that council taxpayers and their councillors can easily see what ordinary people think of the scheme?

(Dr) M M F Collier

Lostock,

Bolton