AT the Osbaldwick Parish Council meeting on July 19, a letter from Lord Best, director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, was read out.

This is the second letter from Lord Best in two months, the previous one being a copy of a reply to John Greenway MP's suggestion for a meeting with Lord Best.

In that reply he said there was no point in having a meeting because all the people against the development were set in their ways.

Now, in the latest letter, he is asking for a meeting between Mr Hammon, his environmental consultant, and Mr Mortimer, the consultant and the person who found the great crested newts.

Do I suspect that Lord Best is getting frustrated?

I know the feeling. We have been frustrated for four years writing to JRF Housing Trust, architects PRP and Alan Baxter about our concerns, which include traffic and flooding.

Despite all the letters sent, and inquiries about meeting with someone who could give some answers to the problems, we are still waiting.

On February 18, 2003, the traffic engineer who the parish council engaged to look at the traffic and transportation assessment in support of the development at Osbaldwick by Alan Baxter & Associates (ABA), wrote to ABA, JRF and the City of York Council asking to meet with them to discuss our concerns; to this day he hasn't received a reply.

Councillor W M Kettlestring,

Yew Tree Mews,

Osbaldwick, York.

...IF ex-councillor Brumby describes Barry Potter and YNET as banana people (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) then, keeping the fruit theme, surely Martin 'Bluster' Brumby is an 'orange' person - obliterate and ruin all natural green environments.

Have readers any other fruit-based descriptions for the people trying to cover all of York in concrete?

M Warters,

Yew Tree Mews,

Osbaldwick,

York.

Updated: 10:01 Thursday, July 29, 2004