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FLAGSHIP hotel shelved as Spinning Point plans move forward (‘£10m loan to fund town regeneration’, December 21) Josie E Pillitteri: Seven food and drink units comprising of ?? I hope no chain restaurants will be involved, we need to support local businesses. Vicky Pegg: So let me get this straight...the same council that lost millions of pounds of our money are to be trusted to borrow millions more on plans that the valley peo- ple don’t want? Can only be talking about RBC! John Pitt: First rule of borrowing money, if you need to borrow money to pay for something, chances are you can’t afford it... Leanne Guest: We need high street stores so we don’t need to go Bury, Burnley etc to access proper clothing shops instead of supermarkets and takeaways. Anne Dean: We need the baths in Haslingden not a spa in Rawtenstall. Lizzie Riley-Haworth: So we knock a shopping centre down that didn’t work out to make way for...a shopping centre? One that we can’t afford at that! So much logic. Linzi Hayhurst: Has anyone ever asked what the residents want? The public consultation on this consisted of representatives from Barnfield insisting that Rawtenstall needed more shop units to bring in high street chains. I see empty units in the current climate. Time for a rethink. More shops are not needed. Leisure facilities are, but unless parking is improved no one will be able to access them.