Our deepest sympathies...
THE Bahá’í Community across the United Kingdom extends its deepest sympathy and offers its heartfelt prayers for the victims of the devastating Manchester attack, their families, and all those affected by this tragedy.
We stand together in solidarity with those of all faiths and none in working ever harder towards building a unified and peaceful society, recognising that, “So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.”
Sylvia Miley Secretary of Sefton Baha’i
Community
WHY USE LEADS?
THE dune area between Hillside and the Royal Birkdale Golf Clubs is under threat from the Bootle Council (Sefton) intending to make dog owners keep their dogs upon leads there.
There are many elderly who exercise both the animal and themselves by walking on the sand.
They will be unable to get out and exercise their dogs properly when Sefton ‘police’ this area because they are themselves infirm to hold a lead with the animal used to playing freely upon it.
Recently I saw an elderly lady with a walking stick exercising her dog off the lead!
If it had to be on a lead she would probably unable to even be in the street, so the animal would suffer and she would become a ‘couch potato’ and her health rapidly deteriorate.
The number of non-dog walkers there, even in the summer, are only a few.
Out of term-time parents take their children with the dogs there, so the regular dogs that walk there are used to children and pose no issues. R Pook via email
MAKE VOICES HEARD
MANY readers of the Visiter will be aware that a company called Aurora Energy Resources will be submitting a planning application later this year in order to drill an exploratory fracking well in the local Petroleum Exploration and Development Licence area 164.
Before doing so, the company is obliged to follow a Community Engagement Charter.
According to the charter this means engaging with individuals and organisations and consulting openly and honestly with local communities from an early stage.
The company is also required to provide sufficient opportunity for comment and feedback, and listen to concerns and respond appropriately and promptly.
Taking them at their word, I have asked them in advance for an assurance that they intend to hold separate consultations in Formby, Halsall, and Maghull, in both the daytime and evenings, so that all residents across the affected area have a chance to comment and provide feedback on their plans for fracking.
I have also asked them to confirm that they will be prepared to respond during the consultations to any questions I have about the effect of fracking on water use; local air, water and land pollution; the industrialisation of the countryside; heavy traffic on unsuitable local roads; damage to local farming and tourism; seismic activity; property blight; and biodiversity.
If readers wish to endorse these sentiments, or submit their own questions, they can e-mail “info@ aurora-energy-resources.com”. John Wilkinson
Formby
HOMES RETHINK
I LIVER on Merlewood Avenue.
I can not understand how the green light can be given to building 300 new homes on Bankfield Lane and the other houses on the Philips factory site.
Currently with any heavy downpour of rain our road can not cope with the amount of water, never mind when more houses are built.
Sefton Council sent us a letter stating a company called Kings would be doing a survey on the drainage system. No-one called to the property, nor have I heard anything since.
Traffic around Churchtown is getting worse by the day, at peak times it can take up to 30 minutes to get from Mill Lane to the traffic lights at Preston New Road.
Merlewood and Verluam are used as short cuts to cut out the speed bumps past the park, with many speeding drivers ignoring the 20 miles per hour speed limit.
Doctors and dentist appointments in Churchtown are hard to come by, never mind with an extra 900 homes.
Surely homes (can be) built on some of the empty industrial units around Crowland Street, or on the unused park and ride rather then being occupied by travellers causing damage every time they come (in fact we have two disused park and rides – the one by the north end of the lake has not been used for a long time either).