Last night, the Tory Council Leader mixed up Prestwich with Whitefield and admitted he only gets down to our end of Bury every few weeks or so.  So, in the far too long and acrimonious political verbadshindaggerings of the meeting, it made me wonder why?   What’s wrong with us?  Is it the smelly haze of the Water Treatment Plant?  Which is a posh title given to our sewage works – that reeks all summer and is bearable in the winter, only?  Artificial perfume is pumped into the air in large quantities as an odour suppressant.  Unfortunately I am sceptical about anything put in the air that we then breathe in – is it safe, I always wonder?  The again, I also wonder about mobile phone use and car emissions, too. 

Previously I’d been told, when asking, that United Utilities is a private company (not a public utility any longer) and not a Council partner, so you cannot interfere or work with them.  So, I asked:

‘In view of the Council’s positive approach to partnership working, what steps are underway to work with and improve the smelly sewage works at Blackford Bridge?’ 

The Tory Executive member, from north Bury, didn’t know there was a sewage works there or that it is a problem.  However, she has agreed to look into it.  It would be really, really fabulous if residents could breathe in real air rather than artificial enhancements – and the smelly haze – depending on the weather and heat, can waft over to Sunnybank and into Unsworth and over to the cemetery and Albert Street (near our famous luggage factory).  Something else to follow-up.