Letters
The views and opinions expressed on our letters page are those of the respective authors and do not reflect the opinions of the Syston Town News.
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Dear Editor,
Syston is a wonderful place to live particularly when the town is adorned in glorious floral technicolour. The Clock Dial entrance to Central Park, opposite Tesco’s, looked magnificent this year festooned with flowers as did the hanging baskets with their cascading floral displays around the town. It has been a symphony of colour along the brook and very uplifting. Just looking at these displays makes aches, pains and worries feel far less important. Probably the best antidepressant ever. Many congratulations to Syston Town Council, Syston Councillors and all the businesses involved.
However, I read with interest the brilliant letter in our great Syston Town News from a resident regarding the forgotten Cinderella funded area (not only for the lack of Christmas lighting), known as ‘The Green’ off the High Street. It was about the raised flower beds that have been completely ignored and become a haven for litter and other debris for the last few years, even though this represents a significant gateway to the town centre, with 3,000 vehicles passing by every day.
The area was tastefully reconfigured some years ago to a high standard. But without any consultation missing block paving, starting from about five years ago, with the collusion of Leicestershire County Council, is continuing to be sneakily replaced with ugly tarmac, desecrating the area, and making it look more like a chess board. Unbelievably this is in Syston’s designated Conservation Area. We often complain about juvenile vandalism but this is an act of council vandalism. Where were the Charnwood Borough Council Conservation Officers when this started? Will the council manager that is giving instructions for this work to be carried out be reprimanded? In a Conservation Area CBC are assiduously speedy to insist that roof slates are replaced with like for like under threat of harsh penalties.
I urge our hard-working caring town councillors, of all political persuasions, to have an on-site meeting to see this for themselves and resolve to get the area smartened up once again.
From a Syston resident name and address supplied.
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Dear Editor,
So! After leaving our home of 46 years due to extensive flooding on the 6th January we are finally back, been living in chaos with a tradesman or three still milling around though, but ‘home’!
What a year 2025 has been, there’s been ups there’s been ‘several downs’ and stressful headaches along the journey for a variety of reasons. We’ve welcomed great grandchildren to the family and sadly lost a close relative, but we’re here, at ‘home’. Material stuff is just stuff and replaceable, look after your family and friends, cos their the most important, and in a world of madness, if you can be anything, be kind.
M & K