ON October 17 2014 I wrote to your paper with regard to the amount of money Bradford Council was prepared to spend on events and facilities outside City Hall whilst Keighley seemed to be receiving crumbs from the Bradford table.

Not so, says Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe. The council has funded the Cliffe Castle Museum refurbishment and is going to spend £1.5 million on traffic improvements.

This is a somewhat disingenuous statement as I seem to recall most of the money [for Cliffe Castle Museum] came from the Heritage Lottery fund.

And where is the promised one-way system for the town centre? If last week’s Keighley News is accurate, it seems that is once again on the back burner, where it has been for 15 years.

You may, as you look out of your window in City Hall at the ghost town that is Bradford, believe we in Keighley do not need a one-way system or indeed any sort of traffic improvement, but anyone who has to drive through Keighley will tell you we do.

What is needed is a council that actually looks at Keighley and makes a proper assessment for a town that is busier, more productive and has better tourist links than anywhere else in the district. We need a good quality hotel and a varied range of accommodation, so we can be at the hub of what is, after all, an area that is within easy reach of many different tourist destinations, ranging from the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway via the Brontë Parsonage, East Riddlesden Hall, Police and Forensic Science Museum and Cliffe Castle Museum.

We have many public walks and we are within 15 minutes of the Pennine Way, a bus ride from Skipton and its castle, Ilkley Moor, Saltaire and Shipley Glen. We have a bus museum and a permanent model railway exhibition, both of which, with a little encouragement from the council, would, I believe, also be able to open their doors to more visitors.

PETER CORKINDALE

Oakworth