NOT everyone in Hale supports the 'Save the Bleeding Wolf' campaign.

There are many people living in the pub's immediate vicinity who would be glad to see the back of the petty vandalism, closing-time rowdyism, taxi horns honking at midnight, revving motor bikes and clutter of hand-written signs.

Let's face it, the 'Bleeding Wolf' pub has suffered from years of under-investment and has become a complete dump, totally out of character with its surroundings.

There seems to be an unexplained objection to the idea of 'faceless flats' that will somehow damage the community.

The plan is to save and restore both buildings and build a sympathetically designed additional block of quality accommodation.

The design is far from 'faceless', it's highly sensitive to the conservation area status of locality.

As to the screeches of horror at the idea of 'fifty parking places', how many do they think there are now?

Exactly how will 34 new residences damage the community, I ask?

They will attract prosperous buyers who'll bring trade to local business, new members to the community, fresh income to the borough's rating coffers.

What's wrong with that?

I'd rather have thirty-odd flats full of living, breathing people living across the street than a dead pub, any day.

I have every sympathy with the staff of the Wolf Garage who might find their jobs relocated but this successful business could obviously operate just as well (or better) in more modern premises elsewhere in Trafford.

Rhetorical claims that the re-development of this site will open the floodgates to countless more flats around the district are infantile exaggerations. It simply will not.

Replenishing the nation's housing stock is not a social crime it's a necessity.

In my view, the Bleeding Wolf is one sad beer-hall too many.

Richard Blears, Park Road, Hale