I FEEL very strongly that it would be quite wrong to build houses over fields, however much more housing is needed.

Even making a new green space by the new houses would not be the same at all. There are old open fields there and trees, with birds and probably wild animals, which would be driven away, quite apart from spoiling the area for present residents.

Some years ago I used to walk my dog there and we could go up and down the lane and all over some of the fields. Blissful. And so easy to get there and to park, either on the side of Meadlands Road or the road to Osbaldwick village, without being in anyone's way.

Elizabeth Graves,

Stockton Lane,

York.

Updated: 12:03 Wednesday, February 09, 2005