‘I take issue with letter’

I take issue with the writer of the letter, headlined ‘Centre Would Be Welcome’, in last week’s Ulster Star Letters page.

Few would argue with the core objective of a Cat Rehoming Centre planned for the Carnbane Road - that of providing suitable, new homes for homeless or mistreated cats.

The main issue is where it is planned to be situated - a building 10 times the size of an average dwelling house, with 15 toilets, conference rooms, operating theatres, up to 30 staff, etc, etc, attracting hundreds of cars and indeed coaches with schoolchildren and all this in an Area of Special Control, ie Greenbelt, on a quiet country road.

I have kept cats all my life, and am a cat lover like many local residents, but the logic of moving what is essentially a business, not a “charity building” as the Letter writer states, out into Greenbelt when there are brown fields all over the Province nearer to centres of population escapes me totally.

To my knowledge the cats to be rehomed have not expressed a need to be accommodated in the countryside, and the extra people - staff, visitors/schoolchildren - attracted by the centre would transform a quiet, rural location totally; and I comment as someone who was born just a couple of hundred yards from this proposed carbuncle on the countryside.

Yours faithfully,

Feline Furious