SIR – Housing numbers proposed by the South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) were subject to “the necessary infrastructure being delivered”.

It isn’t, nothing significant is even planned.

Road infrastructure is woefully inadequate and so constrained and fragile that an accident, roadworks or flooding anywhere in the city instantly causes traffic gridlock Major beneficiaries of building are councils and developers, both gain much financially.

It is residents who will suffer with a decreasing quality of life as the roads become more unbearable.

Worcester’s roads are already among the worst five per cent in the country for congestion.

Make no mistake a majority of the proposed housing won’t go to local people.

Of course some house building is needed to satisfy local demand but not on the scale proposed, with major traffic and flooding problems south Worcestershire can’t cope.

How can politicians be prepared to add thousands more cars to roads that are already gridlocked and likely to get worse in the future?

SWDP should be scrapped as other councils in the country have done.

The western bypass and ‘northern’ bridge must be built to support proposed large-scale development.

This issue will certainly influence who I vote for at the next elections.

TIM MYERS

Worcester