Letter Page, July 2024
Dear Editor,
I am writing to you to highlight the problem we are having in the Wolsey Way area.
We have a lot of grassed open spaces which is lovely, but for some time now the grass hasn’t being cut so it looks unkept and as if we are living in a slum area!!
Behind the garages grass is growing where it shouldn’t which again looks unsightly!
A contractor on a sit on mower came and cut the grass down at the back of the garages but not the grass public areas in front of the properties, he told me that the council were leaving things more natural!
Well, I am appalled that I and my neighbours pay our council tax which is always going up and what do we get in return, no one looking after the public areas which is vital for the well being of residents who look over these areas, why is it being ignored and even forgotten?
Another down side to the grass not being cut is that some irresponsible dog owners are not clearing up after their dogs, which is disgusting! This is hazardous to young children who might like to run through the long grass and then find themselves covered in animal excrement!
What is Syston coming too?
It’s a disgrace and makes me very angry indeed.
One has to ask oneself, where is the money from the ever increasing council tax going? As it certainly isn’t being used to keep our environment clear and pleasant. Residents keep their own front gardens neat and tidy with mown lawns and then they have to look out over these unsightly unkept public grass areas! Some are now losing the will to continue adding to the dishevelled appearance of our neighbourhood.
Don’t give me the old chestnut that its for the wildlife because the only wild life in Syston at the moment are the residents!
Yours sincerely
Big Ging!
PS there is a God! just before the Stn went to print, I contacted them because I looked out of my window and a man from Leicestershire County Council cutting the grass! However, it is supposed be cut six times a year and here we are in June and its only been cut twice, because it has been to wet!!
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Dear Editor,
I feel I need to write to the Stn to express my disappointment about the event on the park in June to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings. The publicity re the timings of various stages of the event did not seem to be consistent at all, so I called in to the Town Council Office in the afternoon to clarify the time when the event on the park would start. A member of staff in the outer office did not seem to know anything about the event, but the Town Manager stated that it began at 6.00pm.
Thus I and my sister went down to the park at six only to find that the various stalls and displays were in the process of being erected, and that we had arrived far too early for the main events of the evening. (By this I mean the lighting of the beacon and the ceremonial part of the events). We were very disappointed as our father was involved in the landings and we wished to honour the memory of all those courageous men who died in the event and to honour the bravery and stoicism of those who survived.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs F. Austin.
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Dear Editor,
I am not in the habit of writing letters of complaint but was so disgusted by the D-Day commemoration event in Syston that I felt it needed to be commented on:
First of all, there was hardly any publicity – as far as I know, just a notice on the bridge on Melton Road. I was told that it would start at 6pm so I went down to the park where I found the following:
Billy Bates Funfair – totally inappropriate for the occasion.
A few World War II re-enactors in authentic uniforms with a jeep and some equipment A few young people in uniform, hanging around – presumably members of the TA.
“The Beacon”: A plinth with an oil lamp on the top. A few stalls just being set up, a few people in dark suits and dresses, also hanging about. There were also a few people sitting on the bench seats waiting for something to happen!
There was no band, no other activity nor any indication of what was going to happen – where or when. I walked round the park and waited for about 20 minutes but then went home in disgust.
We have been inspired and moved by the TV coverage from Normandy of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Obviously a local event is not going to match this in any way, though the annual remembrance parade to the war memorial on the 11th of November is always appropriate and moving.
If you are going to embark on organising an event like this, do it properly or not at all.
S. Blaxland