I WAS interested to read in the Chippenham News on November 17 that floodlights will transform Corsham's South bank. For some years now I have been aware each time I drive down the Lacock road that if I look to the right I will see buildings that would look more at home in Newlands Road, the ugliest street in Corsham. So I try not to look to the right. At night the area is a flood of orange and silver light more in keeping with a motorway intersection.

As there is so much blighted land between Corsham, Rudloe, and Neston, I always wonder why Lacock road was thought a good place for all this development.

I was fascinated to learn that Corsham Town FC is a tenant of the Methuen Estate. This allays my suspicion that the football club has property development at the back of its mind, but also raises the following question: Having preserved half the town so successfully that people who live in the other half count themselves lucky to be within walking distance of such beauty, why would the Methuen Estate then allow it to be spoiled by light pollution and giant stanchions built on their own land?

NICHOLAS BRAKESPEAR,

Pickwick Manor,

Corsham.