SIR – I am surprised by the protest regarding the former Neville Grange Resource Centre site (T&A, June 2).

There have been various consultation events at Neville Grange Resource Centre and at Saltaire Methodist Church by Bradford Council before it was decided to shut it and they are still ongoing.

Bradford Council’s ‘Great Places to Grow Old’ strategy is about providing four extra care facilities, of which this new-build would one – it’s is only right the building should be state-of-the-art, as older people and the vulnerable need to have the best care and be looked after in a dignified and proper manner.

The statement that ‘all the services will be coming in on a daily basis, like doctors, nurses and family and they will all be coming up Queens Road’ suggests this would be something new; yet this happened when Neville Grange Resource Centre was fully operational The local residents need to look at why there is so much traffic up and down Queens Road.

It seem very clear that this is a case of ‘not in our backyard, but in yours’.

Emmerson Walgrove, deputy chairman, Bradford & District Disabled People’s Forum, Unit 1, Carlisle Business Centre, Carlisle Road, Bradford