I want to try to go some way to addressing the balance in the debate about Keighley Civic Centre – ‘Shock’ over civic centre £160k deficit (Keighley News, May 16).

I’m sitting in the light, bright, easily accessible cafe eating fresh home-made food, very reasonably priced. It’s lunch time, the cafe is full.

At last we have an easy police contact point for residents and visitors – who could find the police on an industrial estate a mile from the town centre before we had our old police desk back?

The building looks great from the outside – smart and positive.

North Street needs to come up on the top side of town, our library has been restored, Fox’s corner at the High Street end now sports the excellent For Teas Cafe, the central North Street arcade is in the process of restoration. We are a special town. Looking out of the civic centre over the stunning imaginative floral displays by Stephen Thorpe in the Town Hall Square makes me feel proud of Keighley.

Please let’s be positive about the civic centre. Keighley deserves it rather than another sad, empty building, which is the alternative if it closes.

Please visit it, support it and help join the blank spaces in North Street until we have once again a street to be proud of.

Ruth Caswell Providence Lane Oakworth