When I saw in the Gazette (May 20) that Persimmon Homes is eyeing Malvern's 'green lung' and that Barratt West Midlands want Malvern Town

Football Club's ground at Langland Avenue, and I thought about the vast

development Persimmon plans for the North Site, for some strange reason Pete Seger's song came to mind:

Little boxes on the hillside,

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,

Little boxes, little boxes,

Little boxes, all the same.

If Persimmon and Barratt get their way, what will our lovely Malvern look like in 2011? Probably exactly like every other town in which Persimmon Homes and Barratt and other such developers have built their pattern-book houses. Do we want this for Malvern?

Then I read Jo McFarlane's letter and must agree wholeheartedly with everything she says. Before any more development goes on in Malvern we need

to know what the impact will be and plan properly for it.

We know, for instance, from the miserly sum Persimmon has set aside for the roads, that the impact of development on Malvern's roads is not very high on their

agenda. I think we should force it to the top of everyone's agenda.

Alison Pickford, Merick Road, Malvern.