I also read in the most recent edition of the Reporter, Anne Brown's letter on the subject.
The demolition of the building on Good Friday is to me immaterial. An empty building is not a church. The church is Christian people meeting together not the building.
I also noted in the April 4 edition of the Reporter's Property Today supplement that the Dewsbury and Mirfield Methodist circuit is now disposing of the Central Methodist Church building on Daisy Hill through estate agent Holroyds for offers in the region of £500,000.
For many years Central Methodists shared this building with the Elim Pentecostal Church before the methodists moved out to join with the United Reformed Church on Longcauseway. I believe that the Elim Pentecostal Church has long since cherished a hope of buying the Central building on Daisy Hill for its own sole use. If this happened it would mean that this building would continue to be used for Christian worship, preaching and teaching, rather than be converted into more flats that would line the pockets of a property developer.
Surely the sensible thing to do would be for the Methodists to sell Central to the Elim Church for a 'reasonable' price which allows them a permanent home in the centre of Dewsbury.
Surely the Dewsbury Methodists don't need the half a million pounds. They have a new very acceptable home at Longcauseway plus the money they have received in recent years from the sale of chapels at Ravensthorpe, Batley Carr and Thornhill Lees which have previously closed.
Come on Dewsbury Methodists, treat your fellow Christians well. Don't make them homeless!

DAVID COULTHARD
Fairfield Avenue
OSSETT