I WRITE in response to Chris Wilkin’s report in the Gazette (October 20) headlined “Less is more in alien landscape”.

I have just read the report and I would like to know how Mr Guglielmi says “it is inevitable more countryside will have to be sacrificed”. I would like to know what right he and Tendring Council think they have to destroy green belt land?

People want to keep the countryside as it is and has been for centuries. The people pay the taxes, not Tendring Council, so what right do they have selling the land to developers? We already have brown belts, build on them.

This is not the Government telling you to do it. David Cameron has said the councils should listen to the people, as they pay the taxes. It is very clear to the people. Which part did Mr Guglielmi not understand?

We know more houses have to be built, but the amounts being talked about is madness. There is no work, not enough schools or hospitals for families that already live here. So what is the plan?

Bring the masses from London here? After all you don’t want them in the places where the wealthy live. Make this the back end of nowhere, with people on the dole, no work and pensioners? Keep London for the rich. After all, no-one will care.

That is so wrong. It’s about time we were listened to and our green belts left alone. If Tendring Council has so much money to spend, maybe before building all these houses, they should fix the things they conveniently overlook.

Rosemarie Palmer
North Street
Walton