BLOBBYGATE sent out a message loud and clear, don't mess about with seaside crowds.

Lancaster Town Hall planners will be remembered not for what they have done for Morecambe, but for what they did to it since amalgamation, or what they didn't do as the case may be.

Additional housing of any kind (albeit different to shops) on Morecambe's seafront envisaged as rateable income in preference to stimulating resurgence in leisure investment spells the death knell for Morecambe as a seaside resort.

I put it to our leaders if there is any democracy left within the town hall portals, put this grave issue to a public vote.

Wilf Merrill, Morecambe