I AM excited by the apparent rejuvenation of the Parkside site after Talgo shortlisted it as a site to build high speed trains.


It will lead to 1,000 high end manufacturing jobs. My hope is that the people in the area don’t object as they have before. 


I’m all for protecting ‘greenfield’ areas but let’s not forget this site was once a coal pit.

So come on let’s get behind this major first step in bringing economic prosperity back to this area.

I, for one, hope it is the first of many such developments to this industrial town in the North of England.


Wealth generation in this area depends on such developments. 


It stops all the empty shops in the town centre because people have money to spend which brings shops back selling things to people with disposable income.


Ste Metcalfe 
via sthelensstar.co.uk