IREAD with interest the article (LET, March 30) regarding the improvement of public housing in Blackburn and Darwen.

All well and good, but how many times? Most council properties are good family houses ruined by the tenants who get the chance to have all their house modernised free of charge, ready for them to destroy again.

At Higher Croft, half the estate is well cared for because a lot of tenants have bought their houses.

Then, there is the other half where rubbish is strewn all over, dustbins are turned upside down, broken-down cars lie in the gardens and half the homes -- approximately six per road -- are boarded up and vandalised.

What surprised me was Whitebirk estate having £2.5 million spent on free computers for residents. What a joke! Why doesn't Blackburn with Darwen Council get it right? We are the taxpayers. I pay £505 per year council tax -- for what?

Hyndburn Council (LET, March 29) have got it right. Instead of spending money on the 'no-go' properties, they demolish them.

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