Iread the letter from Stan Longthorpe (Letters, May 30) with great delight, as, along with many other writers in the past, he highlighted the continual failings with Hull City Council to plan any major development within the city without causing more problems than the development was supposed to save.
I was delighted on the whole, until, sadly, I came to the part where Mr Longthorpe advocated: "... why not use the land a mile west of the city."
Why always to the west? Why is it that, whenever any new development is discussed, it is always assumed this will take place to the west of the city?
Where is our Hull East MP and our elected east Hull councillors? Don't they ever stand up and fight for this side of the city, or are they so busy toeing the party line, in order to hold Cabinet posts and the like, they haven't time to actually ensure we have simple things like a hospital?
It only takes a quick look at the map to see that the largest income- generating area in the city – the docks – are to the east of the River Hull, even more so should Siemens come to fruition, yet any new development in the city always seems to be heading in the direction of the M62.
We in east Hull do, of course, appreciate that, due to a total failing of ideas, imagination and "out of the box" thinking within Hull City Council's planning department, we have the shambles that is Castle Street. But is there really no one in this city who can actually come up with ideas and suggestions that do not involve simply moving this city further and further west?
Alan Richards,
Wansbeck Road, Hull.
