I NOTED with interest your report in last weeks SAM, in which you reported that the Council had been given Planning Consent for improvements costing £4 million in Sale, notably around the Civic Buildings.

It is a pity Civic Pride does not extend to less than one and a half miles away in what used to be the pretty and historic village of Ashton on Mersey, where a complete lack of care and maintenance is evident.

The pavements and road being pitted with holes and looking more like a patchwork and there being an abundance of litter from the three take-aways.

When you visit other towns and villages up and down the country where there is civic pride, they have nice wide roads, with parking bays, block paving and flower baskets hanging from ornate lamposts, not the monstrosities we have in our village.

Sale is being developed at an ever faster rate.

What do most people moving to the area think of a village that seems as if it has been abandoned to its fate and the vandals.

If the Council have any civic pride then why not extend it down to Ashton on Mersey.

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