SO, Brian Danks thinks the revocation orders are a relief for those who live along the proposed route of the A435 bypass (Letters, September 8).

Can I ask if he and his band of followers have actually considered what has happened?

The so-called Studley bypass was not intended just for Studley.

It was to relieve the insufferable traffic through Kings Coughton, Coughton, Studley and Mappleborough Green and to keep traffic from the residential areas of Redditch.

Do not forget the whole infrastructure of Redditch was designed with this core route in mind.

Now the route has been scrapped, the next step is to de-trunk the A435.

This will enable Warwickshire County Council to put traffic calming measures in place, wherever residents demand them.

The outcome of this will be to divert traffic off the A435 through Astwood Bank, Sambourne, Oakenshaw, Woodrow and Winyates Green, the very areas the bypass was designed to help.

This route has been in existence for many years so the argument against blight for anyone who has bought their home in the last 20 years is nonsensical.

There is another little- considered fact SERRAG has failed to mention - the land set aside for the bypass will now be used for housing.

What will this housing create? Even more traffic on a road network that is at breaking point.

May I congratulate Mr Danks, Jacqui Smith MP and anyone else who opposed the bypass.

PAUL BEAMAN

Stratford District Councillor

Studley Ward