SO the planners are to blame for the lack of development?

That’s strange because I thought it was the lack of optimistic buyers that was frustrating development.

Up to the point of the banking crash and having the same planning laws in place all systems were on an 80 hour a week boom.

I know it sounds good to think about the good old days.

Unfettered growth in every corner, buying up back gardens to fill with houses, the roads full and everyone in boom town but what would that do the planet?

No good at all! Each new house collects its own road, cars, washing and drying machines and water consumption, or did they forget the water shortage and CO2 emissions?

Isn’t it about time we all grew up a little and stopped looking at the world it terms of only dosh and growth?

Left to their own devices developers would have the countryside littered with windfarms, roads, houses, shopping malls, schools, car parks, 4x4’s and won’t just stop there.

A nice row of hotels along the top of the scarp at Canford Heath gazing out across a sea filled with busy windfarm rotors would look swell as well.

DOUG MILLS, Fraser Road, Poole