Referendum call over new Castle Hill hotel plan

THANK you for your sensitive reporting in the Examiner (October 10) re the application by the Thandi Brothers, yet again wanting to destroy Castle Hill.

They are proposing to build a tasteful visitor centre on the hill.

Will this be as tasteful as their last effort? Will the visitor centre provide a place for people to take their sandwiches and flasks? I think not.

As for an Information Centre, there is already enough information provided by the staff at the Jubilee Tower. How much more do people need?

The council should tell the Thandis no, emphatically no!

Once again I call on the representatives of we, the people, to hold a referendum.

Let us once and forever put this odious idea to bed! engineers and other staff instead of work on the bridge.

I assume this remark is made tongue in cheek unless he has positive proof.

The main problem to resolve, as was stated in the Examiner last week, is not as stated by PR regarding increasing material mass, but one of pressure.

This bridge spans a cutting so any wind is subject to a funnel effect causing increasing forces to be generated (remember the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge in the US which collapsed in windy conditions in 1940).

If the structure of the bridge is increased, a larger surface area will be exposed to the wind, hence the load on the structure will increase proportionately.

Lots of work went into making the M62 an environmentally sound motorway with cuttings and banks, angled to combat adverse weather and, if people can remember, the Humber Bridge had to be modified because of the wind effect on the road way.

Simple science: Load = pressure X area. I READ that many NHS trusts are increasing car parking charges for staff and patients.

Let us hope that Huddersfield Royal Infirmary does not follow this. Their charges are high enough as it is.

At the same time Parking Eye, which manages 900 car parks including 17 at hospitals, revealed a profit of £8.2m last year, up from £5.9m in 2015.

It is a scandal that private firms are ripping off staff and profits to that extent.

But individual trusts set parking fees so let’s see what happens here.