WRITE about the article "Fears over takeaway" regarding a planning application for a tandoori takeaway at Comberton Place, Kidderminster (Shuttle/ Times and News, October 7).

My partner and I are so relieved that Wyre Forest District Council's planning officer has stated that there are "not too many takeaways" in the area!

We can only assume that the officer lives nowhere near Comberton Road and Station Hill.

Our home lies at the top of the hill and it is our desire to keep fit by taking a regular early morning run or walk in our neighbourhood.

The first part of our exercise, whether we turn right or left from our road, invariably means wading through the filth and detritus left from the previous evening's consumption of fast food.

Chip papers, chicken burger and pizza boxes, chocolate wrappers and cigarette butts are littered across the pavement for many yards in each direction.

The rubbish combined with the stench from the use of bushes and walls as temporary urinals gives the area an ambience more suited to a tough inner city than a small manufacturing town.

How anyone can eat, smoke and use the Comberton underpass as a toilet at the same time astounds us. Would you eat junk food in a public loo?

It must be remembered that besides takeaways in the area we also have a video store and supermarket that sell snack food, sandwiches and cigarettes to the local migrating populace.

If the officer that made judgment on the area, or the councillors who believe him, would care to accompany us on a walk on the hill on Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning we would be happy to show him the results of such splendid council planning.

HAROLD LAMBERT

CHRISTINE RITCHIE

Yew Tree Road

Kidderminster