[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

Regeneration, more tourism, more shops, nice places, nicer views, less disrespectful kids, less vandalism, more civic pride.

We've got more than enough shops. They are forever building shops when half the town is already full of empty ones.

Nicer places, nicer views. Yes, I'm all for that, but our council seems to have a very shortsighted view if you'll pardon the pun. We have an area in town which could be very beautiful if it were developed properly but of course that costs money and they're very good at wasting money on things we don't need and already have too many of - like shops.

Ironically we have a "viewpoint" - a small layby on the A56 as you come over the coppice towards Huncoat. Unfortunately any view there may have been from here is obscured by scrubby "trees" which were never on t'Coppie when I were a lass and in the opinion of many residents should never have been put there at all! The layby also attracts litter louts who don't only drop whtever they happen to have on them at the time, but also seem to go to the trouble of bringing their bin bags from home!

Civic pride? Hyndburn? Perhaps if the kids had something to be proud of it would be a start. I'm sure the decent ones outnumber the vandals and hooligans but we all seem to suffer at the hands of the latter.

In contrast we drove around Whalley at the weekend and the views were somewhat pleasanter.