Susan Farr's letter regarding the Horseshoe Inn at Broom's Green (Your Letters, April 15) appears to be slightly selective in its view of letters written to council planners.

She bemoans that there were 140 objections to the proposal. In fact, the final figure was well over 150 and the quality of many of these was extraordinary - including letters from publicans and brewers who share CAMRA's serious disquiet about the proposals and continued closure of this pub.

A citation from Wye Valley Brewery, which previously supplied beer to the Horseshoe Inn (and sponsored the quiz league for which the pub regularly put up two teams), specifically stated that the pub had been a viable commercial operation.

Conversely, a cursory glance at the letters of support for the pub's partial demolition and closure shows a very different picture. Of the 54 letters, only eighteen even originated from addresses within the same county. It is quite clear there was little genuine or local support for this proposal.

The current owners bought this pub with their eyes wide open and have kept it steadfastly closed since they day they bought it. In so doing, they are frustrating the ambitions of others, who wish to buy it and run it as a viable business.

If CAMRA were to stand by and allow pubs to be closed and converted at a whim, then we would soon have no pubs left to support! CAMRA needs to warn property speculators, who only view our village pubs as twee country homes, that they need to think very carefully first.

Mark Haslam, Herefordshire & Worcestershire CAMRA, West Malvern Road, Malvern.