So it seems that Hallam Land Management have a hotline to The Almighty and arranged that there be no further flooding of the lower part of the site.

I do wonder however if they have also arranged the means to relocate this water and to how it might be so relocated!

An earlier letter of mine outlined the problem. Further to the concerns regarding the overloading of the local facilities, my maths tell me this: 760 homes each with 1-2 cars, as is the norm nowadays, means anywhere from 760 - 1,520 extra cars.

If the homes are filled by retired couples then the health services will have to receive that extra load, if the homes are filled by younger couples with or who plan to have families, then that has the potential to require hundreds of school places, hundreds of 'school run' mums and presumably many more teachers.

Now if HLM offered to build new school spaces, extend the health centre and provided the extra doctors and health workers then we would not have crowded classrooms and the current residents hereabouts wouldn’t have to wait a week, or often more, to get an appointment to see our hard-pressed doctors.

Is that too much to ask? You can bet it is! The National Planning Policy Framework means that we have to provide a certain quota of extra homes but surely it is unrealistic to expect us to meet these requirements until the social infrastructure is in place or is provided concurrently with the main project.

It would be interesting to know if current on-going building projects are included in the current requirement total, and if so do we need such a large number on Vearse Farm?

WALLY HOLMES Ryall, Bridport