Sir, – Where is Catterick? Apparently, a Catterick school sports pavilion to get a new lease of life, (D&S, Sept 10), is in Hipswell and on page 23, “Cash for projects in Catterick” places Hipswell, Scotton, Colburn and St Martins in the running, but not Cinderella Catterick, the real Catterick on the A1 by-pass.
Catterick Library is not here but on Gough Road in the Garrison.
Catterick no longer has a post office and counter trade is now bring bussed out of the community. The public toilets are closed and gone is the 70- year old village newsagency.
More houses are to be built for the biggest dormitory village in North Yorkshire. Closed also is the Methodist Chapel and the Catholic Chapel at Marne Barracks is to go likewise shortly, increasing travel all round.
The conservation area has been mocked with an urbanised traffic scheme and odd bits of conservation interest are steadily being lost and more and more houses are going into the instability of the rental market.
No real share in the community means less real care. Who was it who talked of a homeowning democracy for Britain?
Margaret Thatcher?
TONY PELTON High Green, Catterick Village.
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