The forgotten village

HAVING read the letter from former councillor Colin Auty last week, I fully endorse his comments and I find the same has been going on at Hanging Heaton.
By The Newsroom
Published 21st Sep 2010, 10:20 BST

We have a derelict community building (up for sale), no playground, hordes of kids from all over coming to play along the High Street and Low Bottoms, cars and lorries speeding down the High Street since Kirklees Council improved it, dangerous low pavement walls with 20-foot drops to fields below. And to add to this, thieves are stealing from us on a regular basis - walls and stone flags vanish overnight.

Evan a disabled war veteran’s hand-railing has been taken. Although we have three ward councillors it wasn’t until the Labour leader Mehboob Khan in Huddersfield read about the theft in the paper, that the railing was replaced.

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As Mr Auty said it’s about time our ward councillors got their act together and realised that there is more to being a councillor than going to posh meetings at Huddersfield and getting write-ups in local papers, and visited local people more instead of just before election time. No wonder we are known as the forgotten village.

JACK BUNN

High Street

HANGING HEATON

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