THANK you for the balanced reporting on the Whittington greenfield development issue. Your article and editorial of yesterday (Monday, September 26) were a credit to your newspaper.
The village has done its bit. Whittington Hall has already been converted into a large office complex and two more huge new office blocks have just been built next to it.
The latest proposal - now withdrawn - would have been vast. Some 10,000 square feet equates to a room measuring 17 foot by 20 foot for each of the 30 people the applicant said would have worked there. The travel plan was an idealistic fantasy that could not have been enforced. Worcestershire Royal Hospital's "travel plan" has brought illegal parking on grass verges and residential streets, but not reduced car use. This development would have created more empty office space when plenty already exists in Worcester. It does not create jobs - only new and expanding businesses create jobs.
The ancient ridges and furrows in the green fields that would have been lost under the proposed access road are 1,000 years old and were originally farmed by the Saxons.
ANDREW GUY, Whittington.
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