I find it difficult to comprehend how anybody could even think about a proposal to build a supermarket and petrol station opposite Tropiquaria.

I am sure this would prove very convenient for locals, myself included – but at what price?

Housing is consuming vast swathes of our green and pleasant land, which many people feel unhappy about.

To put a petrol station etc in the middle of the countryside seems like total madness.

I daresay a petrol station in Watchet would be very welcome so why not build one there? I think a brown field site could be found – inside the old paper mill could be considered, or possibly one could be incorporated into the development of the Easy Quay.

All I can say to our planners is please have respect for our countryside and treat it as the precious resource it is. Once built on it is lost forever.

M Conrad, Blue Anchor.

Read more letters on this topic in the Free Press (October 26)