GOING, GOING, GONE?

The former Glebe Road School site is not the only piece of Brigg real estate to go on the market at a major auction in London on Monday.
For part of what many of us still refer to as the W A Sass Garage site, at the Monument, is also going under the hammer.
If you look closely at the site, near The Monument, you will spot the auctioneer's 'for sale' sign. But don't try it while you are driving!
As readers of the Brigg Extra page in the Scunthorpe Telegraph were informed yesterday, North Lincolnshire Council is looking to sell the ex-school site in Glebe Road, with a guide price of £950,000.
Subject to planning permission being granted...by the same North Lincolnshire Council...it looks like being snapped up for the building of a housing estate.
That's better than the current untidy site, but there must be concerns about adding to the congestion in Glebe Road, as noted by Brigg Town Mayor Coun Michael Doherty.
How about the council doing a deal with the owners of the Ancholme Inn, and creating a new road from Grammar School Road to Glebe Road, through the new housing estate?
That would help allieviate congestion on two streets - and the developers of the housing estate would, in effect, be footing the bill.
Assuming the council gets a cool million, or thereabouts, for the land, there's the question of where the money goes.
The authority has stressed it will be absorbed into central funds, to be spent as, and where, necessary in North Lincolnshire.
Fair enough. But surely Brigg ought to be given some priority. Our wish list might include improvements to the sadly neglected Recreation Ground, perhaps. Not the whole million, but some of it could do a lot of good down there.
We are approaching the season of goodwill. And as North Lincolnshire Council is about to receive what is, in effect, a rather large monetary gift from the Brigg sale, it would be nice if something came back to the town in return.