WITH reference to your front page article in the Ledbury Reporter (April 18) "Developer sticking to guns as residents protest about homes plan", the good residents of Albert Road had better roll out the red carpet; Barry Connally, director of Rural Homes, is going to move here himself.
I wonder where all the many species of birds and wildlife are going to live if the gardens at number 26 and 28 were to be 'razed to the ground' and the bird songs and the dawn chorus to be heard no more, their natural habitat to be destroyed along with mature trees, shrubs and old hedgerows, to name but a few.
With regard to parked vehicles in the street, Mr Connally is quoted as saying at 10am on the Wednesday he only counted eight or nine vehicles. Could that be due to the fact that it was Easter week or that residents had gone to work?
Mr Connally also said that for the proposed development 100 per cent of the cars would be parked off the road. Will they be airlifted into and out of Albert Road, bearing in mind that many of the streets in this area have reduced or no footpaths and pedestrians, including mothers walking their children to school, have to share the roadway with residential/service traffic coming and going and others using the roads as rat-runs. Albert Road does not need any more houses. Nobody minds change but 12 dwellings on land occupied by two bungalows is totally out of order.
JOHN & JACKIE BLAIR, Albert Road, Ledbury
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