THE council's million pound plan for Radcliffe to revamp the bus station complete with new library, art gallery (can we have the Lowry painting please?) museum and a refurbished market in my opinion is a smoke screen to build another 300 apartments to congest our roads even further.

We are not gaining anything, just replacing what we already have. We will lose our sorting office, devastating employment even further and parking facilities.

In my opinion, Bury MBC should be concentrating on attracting business into Radcliffe so we do not need to commute. Halsteads are winning awards for industry and they want land to expand.

But Bury MBC is in favour of building flats, which are government funded and easy revenue for the council coffers to enable the continual empire building.

Radcliffe is not only in need of new build but also needs employment, shops, and entertainment if the town is to be rejuvenated and not turned into a housing estate for commuters. Plans are also in to have a new state of the art' medical centre. Nice building, but it will replace the strategically placed community' health centres. This is to be based at the junction of Bridgefield Street/Church Street on the old quarry site, which will be a nightmare, to get to on the grid-locked roads from the areas who use Red Bank Health Centre and will also reduce the services on offer at Fairfield Hospital. I am in favour of progress but Bury MBC are not giving us anything extra and should common sense prevail if Radcliffe is to have a new bus station why not build the health centre on the triangle at the side of it?

Eileen Slingsby, Countess Lane, Radcliffe