Reverse decision and stop ‘Ice Cream Wars’
FOR what seems an interminable amount of time, we have learned through the Examiner letters page just how cross the impact of Brexit and then Covid-19 has made certain individuals feel.
It is, therefore, heart-warming to see so many good people of Huddersfield rally round what is truly a local issue. That being, the Beaumont Park Ice Cream stand-off.
Nailing my colours firmly to the mast, in both knowing Gary Redfearn and as a lover of Dixon’s ice cream (for that is what it is, never mind the ingredients) I am wholeheartedly behind them both.
Yet again, Kirklees Council appear to have shot themselves in the foot and one can only wonder just how important the additional revenue from one ice cream van at one local park must mean to them that they allow a company from Bradford to take over the site.
One can only hope good sense prevails as those with long memories may remember the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars of the 1980s. Indeed the failure of the Strathclyde police to deal with the conflict and address the resulting public outrage at the time, earned them the nickname of The Serious ‘Chime’ Squad.
Come on Kirklees, don’t let it come to this. Reverse your decision!
No ‘cream’ communism
I’M puzzled that SMT (Feedback, April 7) sees Kirklees Council’s decision on the Beaumont Park ice cream franchise as an example of ‘communism and dictatorship.’
Surely it’s an example of the opposite – the idea, sometimes called ‘neo-liberalism’ that markets are always right and that the lowest price is all that matters. centre of Brighouse to get to the M62, causing pollution and adding to congestion.
As the crow flies it is only about half a mile from Birds Royd to the M62, yet HGVs have to drive more than three times that distance, through five sets of traffic lights.
We need a new river bridge and road towards the M62 Wakefield Road junction; together with improved priorities for traffic leaving Birds Royd Lane turning left, and heading south on the A641 towards Huddersfield.
Such a road would provide a Brighouse bypass and this would be a boon for residents, living in the Woodhouse part of Rastrick and needing to access the motorway.
Back in the 1960s, when Brighouse was being developed, we were promised a ring road, not just an east-west bypass.
It is time to build this vital link, and to finish Bringroad (Brighouse Ring Road).