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WHAT you’ve been saying on our Facebook page:
●●MY damp and mouldy house has put my three-year-old in hospital three times - I’ve never been so scared in my life’. Housing association bosses say they are “deeply concerned” and have completed “extensive” works to tackle the issue (December 26):
Daniel: My damp mouldy house has been keeping me ill for years, my landlords guys just paint over it.
Then the mould grows on top of the paint.
John Collins: They paint over it with “special paint”. My own health problems stem from living in a building they condemned a decade ago and finally renovated two years ago.
●●FLOOD risk as heavy rain to hit Greater Manchester with new Met Office weather warning issued. The warning comes into force just two days after Christmas (December
24):
Mark Walsh: Roll on summer.
●●GREATER Manchester town where gardeners face NINE YEAR wait for allotment opens first new plots in 50 years. The new allotment is almost one and half times the size of Trafalgar Square and has room for 140 plots (December 24):
Aarron Taylor:
It was marsh land but they have dug trenches to drain it and removed where the dear graze fencing it all off so no more dear no more foxes.
Heath Haigh: Maybe Rochdale council should stop building on green
space.
Michelle Bamford: I’ve been on the list for nine years and still not near the top. Good idea to open up more instead of building xx
Rachel Jaques: I’ve been on for 17 years.
Brian Davidson: Nine 9 years, quite unbelievable; think carefully as to whether you are seeking council property or if an allotment, plus shed, may be the better option!
●●THE new fines that could hit drivers in one Greater Manchester town. The local authority has new powers to fight
“moving traffic offences” (December 23):
Mark Glendinning:
Never mind could, they will be.
●●ALL the changes planned on major road connecting Rochdale and Oldham. The work will help buses get through faster and includes a segregated cycle track (December 18):
Andrew Jason: The people who drive these alterations to our roads causing more congestion and pollution travel by car.
Ian Howarth: Make driving your car such a nightmare that you use something else.
Chris Mcnamara:
Another enviro-folly aimed at prioritising the folk who contribute the least to society at the expense of the working class who need to drive to earn a living.
Nick Johnson: Just look at the mess they’ve made of Castleton.
Patricia Harrison:
Another waste of money. No thought whatsoever.
Who comes up with these ideas. Wait till they start trying to do it on Whitworth Road and then Bury Road. You won’t be able to get from one side of Rochdale to another. Its bad enough now.
Renton Marie Anne: Just go to Castleton and see the disaster that is the cycle lane and all the shops that have had to shut there doors for good. Nelly: And what a mess they have made in Castleton. It started 13 months ago now and was only suppose to take 12 months maximum! Emergency services have no chance of getting past! So now its going to be another 12 months for it to be corrected. Its gone past being a joke now! I have now moved my daughter to a school closer to home due to having to sit in the traffic every morning and evening and getting late marks. And now I’ve moved her closer to home they now want to start this again but closer to me! I can’t win! Just leave things the way they are!!! If its not broke then don’t fix it.
Ian Howarth:
Public drop in sessions when everyone’s at work. They should make roads bigger to help traffic flow through. The Bury Road end of Roch Valley Way could easy fit a 100mtr long left turn lane for
Bury Road (where there is currently grass) that would reduce queuing massively.
Jackie Hamer: Sounds more like a disaster than improvements. We live along that route. Sounds more like the idiocy used in Castleton!
Alan Mcguire: How are they going to fit all that in? It’s not wide enough now with cars parked on both sides.
Leigh Antonio: ‘By making it easier for people to travel by bus or walk, cycle, and wheel, some people will choose to do this rather than use cars’..what planet is this [person] on? Cars will always be chosen over public transport for simple convenience, more people would rather drive the ‘long way round’ if it means not sitting in purposefully throttled traffic jams...