PUT BRAKES ON STONE THEFTS

I WOULD like to report that at the last council meeting, held on Thursday, January 11, I Nick Whittaker from Huncoat asked the council to consider the question below and I’m hoping for support from the public to ask the council leader and the MP to get legislation to do this.

Please can you write to your MP and council to support my request.

The answer below, which I got from the council on the night, didn’t actually say whether they would push this forward and only commented again on cuts to budgets etc.

The same old answer and the reason I am standing as independent. This is not a budget situation, it’s about making legislation. It worked for metal thefts, reducing the amount. We need this for stone as many people and places of natural beauty are being decimated by these stone thieves and this sort of legislation could reduce this sort of antisocial behaviour.

The question listed below was the one I submitted to the council for discussion.

“Can the leader of the council call on all members of Hyndburn Borough Council to work with Hyndburn’s Member of Parliament to create legislation which would mean that all stone merchants and transporters of stone are accountable in the same way as scrap metal dealers.

“This issue is at epidemic rates in Hyndburn and it would seem obvious and sensible to me that we mirror image the ‘scrap metal act’ for this particular issue.” Nick Whittaker Accrington