Readers' Letters: Council ‘look utter fools’ over Harrogate bridge closure

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The following comments were left under an article about a six-month closure of a Harrogate bridge to undertake work to replace its wooden handrails.

I wonder how many people fell to their deaths in 17 to 20th centuries before the vital safety handrails were installed! The indifference to common sense is astounding.

Tim Cameron-Jones

Why can’t the council pay a local contractor to do the job. Knox Sawmills only up the road for supply of wood. Job could be finished this time next week.

Brian Varley

I wonder if they are aware what utter fools they look making these sorts of announcements.

Paul Reynolds

So it takes the council 6 months to basically replace a handrail? What a set of clowns.

Serena Barker

Harrogate parklands in need of upkeep

The following letter was addressed to the Mayor of Harrogate about the parklands outside Valley Gardens and the Stray.

Please can you give an up-date to the tax-payers of Harrogate as to when the parklands outside of the Valley Gardens and the Stray will receive their necessary and much needed up-keep?  Jennyfield parkland and playing areas have not been mowed since early spring and are now virtually unusable. Many of our communal pathways are very over grown and impassable. I note the Ripon Mayor has publicly and with some success challenged North Yorkshire Council on this issue and this approach needs to be replicated in Harrogate asap.

A prompt reply to myself and the media will be helpful.

John Needham, Harrogate

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