I MUST object to the phrase "a gaping hole in terms of non-credible meaningful opposition" used in your leader (LET, January 4) to describe the Conservative group on Blackburn with Darwen Council.
At the recent planning and highways meeting, which your reporter attended, I consider that I put forward logical, credible and forceful arguments against several applications.
One in particular was the planned 60-place nursery at St Mary's College, in direct competition with and at the expense of nearby John Smethurst Nursery.
Another was against the 18-apartment development on the minuscule former Beardwood Garden Centre site.
The latter was unashamedly stage-managed by Labour and lost on the chairman's whim and casting vote.
Your reporter obviously considered neither newsworthy, but to comment that there is no opposition gives a highly inaccurate picture of members who do vigorously oppose.
COUN SHEILA J WILLIAMS (Beardwood with Lammack Ward), Lammack Road, Blackburn.
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