EVERY newspaper carries pages and pages of properties for sale and sometimes houses remain on the market for two years or more.

Builders of new estates have the gall to advertise them as being in "a rural location" when, in fact, that is exactly what they have helped to destroy!

There is no shortage of homes in the Bury Metro area or nationwide, and neither do we need any more shops, out-of-town shopping developments, roads or pubs.

The fields on Brandlesholme Road are the last anyone will see on a main road until they reach South Manchester.

Is it the ambition of Bury's town planners to see building on every remaining green field site?

What is required in Bury - and the country as a whole - is controlled population growth to fit reduced job availability in this new technological age.

Then we would have more surplus homes and be able to leave our green fields untouched.

GREENGRASS

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