Half-baked plans with little thought for future

Since that bombshell, your paper has brought to light a series of further half-baked, damaging intrusions on the periphery of the town, each without any element of structural cohesiveness.

References are made in a further report (Gazette, June 10) to co-operation with council officers and the Environment Agency, but information from that quarter reveals the claim to be related to some fanciful core strategy yet to be publicly debated or authorised.

In this article Adam Ross, of Broadway Maylan, from the content of his statement, now appears to be organising the district's comprehensive planning process about such matters.

He talks of the widespread public consultation so far conducted, which to my knowledge consisted of only about a dozen letters to households and a series of postage stamp notices on lamp posts in the Courtwick area.

We learn that the outcome of his public meetings suggests a few workplaces might be incorporated, together with a bob or two for road improvements, and all very localised to add to the damage.

His funding body GE Capital Corporation appears so certain of approval, that the Courtwick lands have been acquired.

Surely this is not the appropriate way to conduct the co-ordinated development needs of the Arun district, disregarding the degree of distress now being engendered?

Derek Hulmes

Kingfisher Drive, Wick

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