SIR — Has anyone got £40,000 to invest in a public inquiry - The People v The Council? Because after August 3 it may be all we have left. A level playing field we could fight on, 'goal posts on wheels' make life more difficult, but if the council is basing: 1) The need for more shops on a retail survey that doesn't list half of our existing outfits, and: 2) The need to sell seafront car parks on a survey that has overestimated our current seafront spaces by a third, then we definitely need a generous benefactor. A trio of surveys is now completed with the inclusion of another expensive, in-depth household telephone questionnaire. In it do we find yet another 'slip' by the council? See Question 8 - the answer has six options. Questioner: "Where would you like to see the new council offices?" The interviewer is then told by his boss to read out options one to three only. Option six says: 'The council offices should stay as they are.' For other gems, ask the council for a copy of the whole questionnaire. With this sort of bias, only a barrister can help us after August 3. The irony is that, if we win a public inquiry, the council will have to pay our costs, and where will the council get the £40,000? From us, the tax payers. It is therefore essential that everybody with any doubt about the direction in which this council is taking us turns up at the West Somerset Community College on Wednesday August 3, since public sentiment is all we have left. Graham Sizer, Mount Royal, Minehead.