AS a resident of Huncoat I feel very strongly that your article and comment (LET, December 2) on the waste facility proposed here was somewhat unfair and did not address the issue fully.

Apart from the gentleman kind enough to explain the process of recycling and technical workings of the plant I found the exhibition spectacularly uninformative.

There was no representative from Highways to be found either night, no traffic details, no emissions or ecological impact studies either.

A staggered junction at Burnley Lane was unveiled which does little to calm fears that commuters (or wagon drivers) caught in hold ups at the Griffin roundabout or main road junction will not turn the lane into a rat run.

For weeks, residents have been told that all their concerns would be answered at the exhibition, unfortunately this was not the case.

Many residents would not find the 'waste technology park' quote so offensive if this 'green' development did not include an access road designed to chew it's way through pastureland and supposedly protected greenbelt.

Few would argue that the old power station site needs to be developed but reading the decision to place it in Huncoat on LLC's own web site one must conclude that it is being placed here, (and CPOs served on individuals), simply to meet DEFRA timetables and NOT because it is the right place. Indeed it flies in the face of central and local planning and greenbelt policies.

In my opinion if such a development with the proposed access road was put in by a private company and not LCC it would be extremely unlikely to be granted planning permission. As for the implication that this is a case of 'NIMBYnism,' Huncoat already has the enormous Whinney Hill tip, add this one to it and you are left with one small primarily residential village playing host to the two largest waste facilities in the county. Never mind NIMBYism what about fair play and equality? Huncoat's residents are not second class citizens fit only to reside in a world of other people's rubbish.

SIOBHAN LEWIS, Huncoat (via email).