SIR – Our Council, having learned nothing from the Westfield debacle, have now created a similar situation in Bingley by allowing the sale of the former Bradford & Bingley building to Sainsbury’s.

Anyone with more than a teaspoonful of brain could see at the outset the rationale behind Sainsbury's purchase of the building – to stop any rival from buying the land, without they themselves having the slightest intention of developing it quickly.

Bingley does not need a supermarket of Sainsbury's proportions anyway – an Aldi or a Lidl on the site of the old cattle market would have been sufficient.

I suppose, like their Westfield counterparts, the people at Sainsbury's will retreat to their mansions in London, leaving us with yet another eyesore for the foreseeable future.

It is high time we disbanded this Metropolitan Council, and gave power back to local people to decide what they want in their own locality.

David Turner, Park Road, Bingley