YP Letters: Problems to be solved, but councillors no help in Mirfield

Councillors need to work harder for Mirfield rather than simply turning up at public events like Remembrance Sunday, says letter writer Harold Laycock.

FURTHER to the recent comments by your correspondent DS Boyes that “we don’t need any more pointless councillors”, there are also a considerable number of unresolved problems in our area of Mirfield where requests for help have gone unanswered by our local councillors. As Mr Boyes stated: “Councillors have no power to do anything, they merely pass the questions raised by us on to the army of council officers and managers who know all the rules and regulations etc.”

I find this to be very true, as well as the fact that they then usually ignore the problem.

It would often appear that while our councillors often lack the will to tackle the problems, they can usually spot a camera a mile away. Some time ago I was a member of our local Neighbourhood Forum. The Forum folded due to lack of support by our councillors.

A new councillor was elected last year for our area of Mirfield. I never saw him electioneering, nor have I seen him since.

Mirfield Railway Station is in a dreadful state of repair with sink holes in one of the platforms. The platform for trains in the Leeds direction is inaccessible to people with disabilities, due the large number of steps to be negotiated. Some organisation should be prosecuted.