According to your November 23 headline, the Kingston Mills "plan is on track". But which track? Along the housebuilder's line perhaps, ignoring red signals, heading for massed upmarket commuter homes, regardless of local consequences.

The right track for the developer's business interests, of course, and cheered on by the cry of "brownfield site"!

The development brief has been largely ignored. No "substantial improvement to severely substandard access" is proposed. Doubling the residential density to 130 dwellings (which WWDC seems ready to concede) will ensure even more traffic and exhaust emissions where present levels must be reduced by 2005.

Yet Taywood's environmental statement claims no significant traffic or air pollution impact!

Although this last chance of more central employment and shopping requires a fair mix of uses, the commercial space is being minimised.

Inadequate on-site parking will deter new business, and push residents' and visitors' vehicles on to nearby streets. Evading "affordable homes" will be socially divisive, when there are over 400 eligible families in Bradford wanting a place of their own.

Let's not be beguiled by developer PR. The current plans promise neither town centre regeneration, nor enhancement of a conservation area. They are brownfield site exploitation gone mad, adding to present and future problems, and therefore unsustainable. We trust our planners and councillors will apply their new "power of wellbeing", and insist on a better deal for the community.

Godfrey Marks,

Belcombe Road,

Bradford on Avon.