I'M INFORMING you that us children shouldn't have ANOTHER play area removed, therefore it's a bad thing what you're doing.

Children and some adults should feel free and get energy in the play areas.

Also whenever we go to play football we get told to move to this play area at Penleigh Park, so clearly what I'm saying is please leave this park alone.

DANIEL TUGWELL

Aged 11

Oldfield Park,

Westbury

I THINK it would be very sad to see houses built on Penleigh Park. It is the only large area for ball games in this part of Westbury. Surely it is better to keep a safe place for children to play where they don't have to cross a busy main road.

Children do matter and for most of the time when playing they need space to play their own games and not be organised by adults all the time.

A HOLMDEN

Bramley Mews,

Westbury

AS A parent of young children living near Penleigh Park playing field I would much rather keep this playing field than have a bigger and better one further from where I live across a busy main road.

Where young people can now just pick up a ball with their friends for a kick about in a safe convenient play area, what parent would feel the same way if these facilities were moved across a busy main road?

R TAYLOR

Campion Close,

Westbury

I WOULD be interested to know where Mr McDonald lives in Westbury?

Myself together with other residents of the Penleigh Park/Oldfield Park estate feel as strongly about more houses and development and the destruction of green fields near our estate as the people at the other end of Westbury Studland Park, Newtown feel about an eastern bypass.

The bypass would surely benefit a far greater range of people than simply Westbury Boys FC

Mr A MORGAN

Oldfield Park,

Westbury

IF THE playing field at Penleigh Park is built on and the children have nowhere to play close to their home surely more of them are going to be playing in the road.

Myself and other elderly people on the Oldfield Park estate have enough trouble with children kicking balls about, shouting and being a nuisance.

I think this can only get worse if the Penleigh Park playing fields are not there.

MRS BA Kirkham

Paveley Close,

Westbury

MY CHILDREN and grandchildren live in Westbury near Penleigh Park.

Mr McDonald talks about 'some 300 boys and girls from Westbury and the surrounding area' needing better sports facilities. Isn't this a minority?

I would guess that there are at least the same number of children living in close proximity to Penleigh Park who would like to keep the playing fields as they are, near the houses.

GLADYS SEYMOUR

Eastbourne Road,

Trowbridge