I DOUBT if Mr Denman (Letters, November 10) has ever walked the Hilperton Gap, admired the lovely view, felt the wind and watched the gorgeous sunsets.

This place is far more than just a few fields, it's a beauty spot something special, crisscrossed by numerous old, well-trodden footpaths. Many people from a wide area use the Gap for walking and recreation and have done so for more than a century.

There are over two thousand more families in Paxcroft Mead requiring a walking and leisure area and many of them use the Gap. In fact this open space is needed more than ever before it's all we've got on this side of town. There is enormous opposition to the proposed road from people right across Trowbridge, surrounding villages and far beyond, as the dozens of completed petitions testify.

The district councillors who supported the proposed road must be ecologically illiterate if they can't see this is only a short-term solution and a long-term disaster.

The time has come for us to cherish our green inheritance, not plunder it. As David Attenborough says: "You don't realise you've got it until its gone."

SONIA PARRY,

Middle Lane,

Trowbridge.