Letter: New developments just keep adding to road traffic problems

There seems to be no end, at least not until the whole countryside is covered with buildings and if it is not housing, it will be enormous warehouse units.

As a species we have already pampered to the soft headed activists and protect various animals and birds, such that numbers have increased dramatically and disproportionately to the balance intended by nature.

And now we seem hell bent on squeezing what there is, into a smaller and smaller space.

The public will never see the fuller picture, but I doubt that the agenda is driven by actual demand.

There is a perceived demand, which in the fullness of time might be totally out of touch with reality.

I suspect though there is an agenda of keeping property developers and builders in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed.

Submit a plan for housing and use the magic word affordable, and councillors fall over themselves to approve it. Or if you propose a commercial development, the key word there is jobs.

There is an irony however, people who eventually take up the housing, will often be travelling to work elsewhere, but be a drain on local resources and a large proportion of the jobs created will be filled by people from elsewhere, who will not contribute to local resources.

One thing is sure, all of these various developments just add to the ever-growing volumes of road traffic.

So it is a puzzle that on the one hand the council is so pushed for cash that services and jobs are under threat, but on the other hand there are wads of cash to fund these development proposals.

Chris Brown

Westbury