If one doesn't read The Chronicle, it may have escaped Bath residents' notice, the intention of Curo to build 700 houses on the former MoD site at Foxhill.
There is no doubt people need homes, and this is a brown field site, but 700 houses?
This area of Skyline status, on a road which is already used as a rat run with the substantial congestion that goes with it, gives rise to the question has B&NES given to the strategy, the environmental impact and infrastructure ?
A few years ago the vital infilling of Come Down Mines was almost rubberstamped to be infilled with PFA (pulverised fuel ash), which, without the power of the press and protests by concerned residents, would have put homes in the vicinity to be on a toxic land register. Patience paid off and the infilling took place, efficiently and safely.
That the generosity of James Dyson to add a jewel to Bath's crown by way of a prestigious academy, was declined while this massive housing complex is considered is bewildering.
The latest adornment to St Gregory's school resembles a block on a par to the gulag Archipelago, not to mention the massively widened pavements, chicanes and various street furniture bling, and is yet another brickbat to our city planners.
Please, you city fathers, let us remember you for all of the right reasons, NOT the wrong ones.
Diane Shearn Paddock Woods Combe Down, Bath