Having read the latest wacky idea about Webb's Hotel - ie let the ratepayers buy it and become the latest in a line of people who will eventually rue the day - I wonder if it isn't time to ask a few tough questions.
Why, for instance, is a listed building which you can't legally pull down allowed to fall into such disrepair?
Aren't there some rules about this? Surely people like English Heritage who if I remember made such a fuss about a local shop intending to move an interior staircase have something to say about a large crumbling heap which if it is listed much have some architectural value.?
Why have local authorities let this go on for ten years when a week hardly goes by without the hotel getting a mention in the media or questions being tabled at some council meeting or other?
And finally, surely if when ordinary houses can, and are, condemned as being unfit to live in , the local council can take some action against a building which is patently not fit to live in because of the state it has fallen into.
Firm action is needed, and I would think it would make a fine gesture for the millennium to give Liskeard some hope for a solution as quickly as possible.
J R JAMES,
Liskeard