I WRITE with regard to the controversy over the site at Fletcher Bank Quarry in Shuttleworth.
With some foresight, the co-operation of the landowners, and National Lottery funding it should be possible to create an area of lasting beauty for the local community and others.
There could be such things as canoeing, fishing, wildlife, picnic areas, a cafe, toilet facilities, riding for the disabled, walking, an artificial ski slope and rock climbing.
It would be sad if the obvious commercial value of this tip is so great that it is not possible to create something of lasting benefit. All Ramsbottom may end up with is its very own smell - like the one that drifts across the motorway from the tip at Pilsworth, as it did on Saturday.
JOHN JENKINSON,
Ramsbottom.
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