SIR - In 'Readers outrage at plan for homes on beauty spot', May 20, you say 'Worcester City Council... points out the need for more homes, particularly affordable homes, and that planning guidance encourages developments to go ahead if deemed 'Sustainable.' What utter cobblers!

We are concreting over our country for development and growth. More than 10,000,000 people have been poured into our country since 1998, 600,000 foreigners came here least year. We simply cannot go on getting 'growth' by pouring millions more people into our country and concreting over our farmland to house and employ them.

Moreover the Council's use of the word Sustainable is laughable. Children are being crammed into our schools. Our hospital and medical services are collapsing under the weight of our rapidly increasing population. Our roads are gridlocked. And pollution has reached illegal levels. Despite all this our politicians are going to add another 100,000 people to our local population, by building another 30,000 houses here. Once they can all hide behind The Inspector that is! Sustainable? Our politicians wouldn't recognise sustainability if it bit them on their gluteus Maximus!

The Worcester News is packed with new housing schemes. Where are the major new road schemes to cope with the increase in our traffic from 3420,000 car journeys a day to 600,000 car journeys a day on our local roads? Where are the schemes to double our hospital and medical services? Where's the schemes to cater for a doubling of the children we shall have to educate? And where's the plans to deal with our illegal levels of pollution? There aren't any, apart from a pathetic widening of Carrington Bridge! And that illustrated how start raving mad our local and national politicians are! It's nor more houses we need it's millions and millions fewer people.

N TAYLOR Worcester