I AM a frequent visitor to Redcar and have to agree wholeheartedly with your letter from C Constance, a visitor to the town from Bishop Auckland (HAS, July 7).

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council plans to spend £30m on transforming the seafront (Echo, July 4) when I think the resources could be better spent on tidying up the town.

One councillor stated “…we want to stand out from the crowd”. Well, the town already holds that dubious honour because during the summer months the car park rubbish bins are more often than not full to overflowing and litter is strewn all around – as described by your previous correspondent.

People might think, on reading this letter, that what Redcar looks like has nothing to do with me because I don’t live there. Well, I have to say that most of the local people that I speak to agree with everything that I have stated and that if it wasn’t for charity shops in the precinct there would be nowhere to shop at all because most of the others are boarded up.

I will continue to visit Redcar because I love the place, but I will try to keep my own counsel in future.

Larry Scaife, Harrogate.

IT is brilliant how Redcar Cleveland Borough Council is excited and shouting at the top of its voice about proposed new leisure facilities and vertical pier and modification of the existing leisure park. What leisure park?

Mungle Jungle used to be a leisure park with rides and slot machines, etc, but has been a skateboard venue for many years now.

What they have blatantly omitted to divulge again is that from Mungle Jungle northward, the existing Majuba Road car park with its beautiful panoramic sea views and surrounding green field land, Coatham Common, has been sold off at an insultingly low price to Persimmon Homes to build 300-plus houses to subsidise the new leisure facilities.

Ray Vincent, Darlington