Swindon Borough Council should reconsider its majority voting in regard to allowing housing developments on the Front Garden.

It should give extra thought to seeing the completion of housing at Abbey Meads, the utter and complete usage of brownfield sites and the occupation of the many vacated multi-storeyed office blocks that could be converted and house many single parented small families.

Consideration should also be given to the logic of having housing developments within an area subject to the drainage of all drains and waters from the upper regions of Old Town and the surrounding higher levels of countryside.

What notice has been taken of the current weather features of the last two months and the continuing forecasts by today's meteorologists of the possibility of such weather becoming a repetitive feature of coming years.

Who wants to buy houses subject to flood, with no insurance coverage and constant noise harassment emanating from the M4 traffic usage, both day and night.

Have Sue Bates and the councillors given thought to the provision of roads and the intensity of the traffic situation arising throughout Old Town, New Town and the West.

Swindon is at a standstill now, especially from and to the Western Expansion areas and the £200 million will soon be spent on provision of transport facilities and such like.

Terry King, let us organise an appointed meeting with Minister John Prescott and hire a coach for 50 or so of us, to get him to see logic about the Front Garden.

R D WALDRON

The Mall

Swindon