I HAVE just read with great interest Paul Stammers' article "St Peter's site on agenda" (Evening News, May 18).

From the conception on St Peter the Great housing estate, it was always envisaged that there would be a mixed type of housing which would include some social housing.

Social housing is sadly always left to the last - on a cramped site, where it would be least profitable to build houses for the private sector.

To bring Worcester City Council's housing problem into some sort of context, there are nearly 200 people, including a large amount of single parent families living in B&B and hostels, placing the housing revenue account under great pressure, thus making all tenants suffer.

The city council desperately needs every last inch of space to dedicate to building of houses for rent. The council, because of the shortage of funds, has to team up with local housing associations which have the resources to build, maintain and let them to those families in the greatest need. To turn this two-acre site over to enable the church to build a community centre, thus minimising the area for housing, would be a tragedy.

I'm not saying that St Peter's does not need a new community centre, but if the parish council is already at loggerheads with the church at this early stage, it does not take a brain surgeon to see that this partnership would be doomed to fail. I just hope that the executive board sees sense.

COUN G P KIBBLEWHITE,

Independent Conservative, Worcester.