AFTER your coverage last week about the Luneside East development brief and the response of local residents, we would like to take the opportunity to make further comment.

We are certainly not against the development itself - a quality product from the existing wasteland must be a good thing for the area. But what is this urban village? The vision presented in the planning brief of high density housing and a few local shops sounds just like all the existing housing estates.

And we are troubled about the way the council pretends to consult about the project and then doesn't include any of the ideas from the public. In particular those that attended the meetings wanted the old railway embankment left as a wildlife area.

It must be costly to develop so why spoil it with an unnecessary cycle track that goes nowhere? Is the idea to provide entertainment for the urban villagers as it goes right past existing residents bedroom windows it would certainly do that. It is an invasion of privacy and a threat to security.

It may be a cycle path for some but it's a path to ruin for us. If we are not getting gawped at we'll be getting burgled. The council should rethink this lunatic aspect of the development proposal.

Vincent Spratling

Hasgill Court

Long Marsh Lane

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