Letters: <strong>Dr Stephen Riley </strong>on how wealthy people collude to avoid tax and <strong>Hilary Cashman </strong>says people should be morally obliged to pay their fair share. Plus letters from <strong>Hugh Cooper</strong>,<strong> Adrian Carter</strong>,<strong> Angela Barton</strong>,<strong> Liz McInnes </strong>and<strong> Sue Wallace</strong>
Heroes and villains in urban development
Franklin Medhurst’s plan to preserve and rebuild Stockton’s Georgian town centre was derailed by the murky web of corruption around John Poulson, writes
Hilary Cashman – while
The Castlegate shopping centre on the high street in Stockton-on-Tees. Photograph: Robert Lazenby/Alamy
The Castlegate shopping centre on the high street in Stockton-on-Tees. Photograph: Robert Lazenby/Alamy
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Oliver Wainwright’s feature about Stockton-on-Tees (Bulldoze the high street and build a giant park: is Stockton the future of Britain?, 11 February), does not mention the man who fought valiantly in the 1960s to save it from decline: Franklin Medhurst, a second world war hero and visionary town planner, whose forward-thinking Teesside Plan was derailed when the self-interest of local politicians combined with the murky web of John Poulson corruption to wreck his team’s p