WAYLAND VAN HILDYCK-SMITH, of

Forde Park, Newton Abbot, writes:

Not only do we suffer arrogant

administrators (Ian Howard’s letter

this week) but they appear to be

aggressive amnesiacs as well.

It is not all that long since the

council explained lack of cash for

not restoring the tennis pavilion for

players’ use as they hadn’t the

money, and in the next breath tell

us it has gone to the police and how

lucky we are to have the local force

keeping their eye on things here and

they would do it up and use it etc.

Now they tell us it is run down, so

WHO has let it run down?

So, by applying for a change of

use application from D2 to A3, is

this not the thin end of the wedge for

when the absurd scheme they propose

fails? And fail it will as Forde

Park is the totally wrong area for

such as they envisage.

Then up pop the entrepreneurs

who decide it would be better as a

restaurant and then, when that happens,

the next step is accommodation,

either above the restaurant or

by building an hotel. And finally

where there is a hotel there can be

houses, houses, houses and full

development!

Wake up, wake up. Do you not

realise what this change of use

means?

If it goes through it is the end of

Forde Park, so fight it off NOW

whilst it is still only in the ‘applying

for’ stage.

If you don’t, it will be too late, and

what value do you think your houses

on the park will be worth then?