I FEEL a response is necessary to the letter from County Councillor Jim Snowball (October 16).
It seems to me hypocritical of anyone, not least a member of the council, to complain about concreting over our countryside when you consider where the member lives.
Orchard Close at South Milford is by village standards part of a modern residential area built on the site of a former horticultural nursery.
Now look at the proposed housing development in South Milford and the larger part of this is planned to be built on a derelict and outdated horticultural nursery.
People need to live somewhere and, as Mr Snowball lives by choice in a modern village house, why should he believe that others shouldn't have the same choice?
I wonder out of all the people who object to developments in villages across the country how many are modern villagers rather than born and bred?
Philip Sunley,
Paddock Way, York.
Updated: 09:49 Wednesday, October 20, 2004
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