READING housing minister Caroline Flint's letter (August 14) "astonished" me, to use her word.
She said that she "viewed the whole eco-twon site from the former runway of Ford airfield".
I am astonished because her eyesight must be better than anyone else's!
The first houses the developers want to build are a mile away from where she s
tood – how could she possibly have seen those fields?
It is ironic that the part of the site that she visited is set aside to be developed right at the end, and only then if there is sufficient demand for office space.
Anyone who goes to the Ford market, which takes place where she stood, has seen the enormous signs saying that the Eco-Town will not affect it
.
Perhaps if she had taken up the offers to be shown the whole site, she could have viewed the crops in the fields that will be covered in concrete.
Mrs Chris Woodcock,
The Beaches,
ClimpingNOTE: All letters must include a name and address which can be withheld by request.
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