S D Powell, of Hawkweed Close, Newton Abbot, writes:

After attending the First World War exhibition at Dame Hannah Rogers, Seale-Hayne last week, I had the pleasure when leaving the site to witness the surrounding green land which has now been put forward for urban development.

During the last few years, the fringes of hometown have seemingly become a series of building sites. I am now wondering when it might stop after reading recently of another 2,000 homes being erected on land just west of Forches Cross towards the Seale-Hayne site. Then there are a few hundred more houses planned for the fields by Bradley Barton School (Farmer Dadd’s area) and according to last week’s edition of MDA now the Bradley lane area!

I have lived in Newton for most of my life apart from my time in Germany serving in the army and have in my 30-odd conscious years not known this level of en masse urban development earmarked for the area.

Apart from the fact that the local infrastructure is at breaking point, nobody it seems has thought about the additional services that these new dwellings will require such as fire, police and ambulance cover although it has been voiced many times.

I am sure that Teignbridge Council will be happy to collect the six-figure yearly sums of council tax from the new properties, but will additional services be put in to cope with this unstoppable expansion of a currently beautiful green part of our country? I fear not.