I AM in full agreement with Graham Mitchell that we should retain the former college site on North Street as a green space – Call for green park (Keighley News, January 11).

He echoes my own letter of last month with a similar suggestion.

However I was not pleased by your report which said that Bradford Council had already decided to build a one-stop-shop on the site at a cost of £19 million. All that this will achieve will be to bring agencies which already exist into one building, and leave countless other buildings empty and derelict.

Our town hall is a handsome building with lots of empty offices and a one-stop-shop already on the ground floor. However, the façade into Town Hall Square does nothing to enhance our grand square. Why not revamp this backside of a warehouse with a new modern frontage to the square and incorporate a few extra offices?

If something has to be built on the old college site, such as a central police station, then limit it to half the site at the Alice Street end and create a grand town centre park using both the existing cleared site and the site soon to be demolished. A park stretching from North Street to Henry Street would be something even better.

Keighley councillors please take note and do something.

DAVID PETYT

Oakworth