EDITOR – In reply to Brian P Kennedy’s letter to the editor in response to the article (9 May) of the derelict building on Somerset Avenue.
I would just like to know how you would expect we clean the building up ourselves, have you been to the house? Have you seen how large the property is and how much work it needs to just ‘keep it tidy’ all you have seen is one picture. This house has no roof, the garden and house is overgrown, it has become a dumping ground for other people’s rubbish and to top it off, there are vagrants who are constantly in and out of the house at all hours. Even cleaning it up will not stop the vagrants as it’s known in the community for the last 10 years as abandoned, it’ll just give them a tidier environment to get up to their elicit activities.
It is not our responsibility to clean up somebody else’s property and then keep it clean and I shouldn’t have to then put myself in danger to do so.
Brian, I’m guessing you don’t live on Somerset Avenue, I’m guessing you never had to arrive home to find the power out and have to get out of your car as the gate won’t open and see two men climbing over the fence of that house and start walking towards you and you become so scared you run to your car lock yourself back in it and wait for them to slowly walk past you.
I’m guessing you don’t hear them laughing at three in the morning in that house doing God knows what. Because that’s the only reason I can find for you giving the arrogant response that I just read in the (30 May) Berea Mail.
TJ Saville
Glenwood
