SIR — I look around Somerset and am saddened at what I see happening.
No politician, planner, councillor or developer will ever groom me that endlessly smothering this county with housing estates, industrial estates and yet more people will improve Somerset, making it a nicer place to spend a life.
I fail to understand those who think that filling our homeland endlessly with more people, housing estates, faster roads, massive industrial units and supermarkets is going to improve our individual lives.
It will not, and following this policy we will simply end up with more people, the life of each individual possibly worse and Britain a concrete squabbling mess.
Without doubt, individual lives in Britain will only improve when simple common sense prevails and we decide no increase in population, very few new developments on green fields and developers redirected into refurbishing properties and rebuilding the poorest environments.
Instead of increasing population, we increase the number of scanners, specialists, doctors and hence with no increase in population better health care per individual, the most precious gift.
Everything else would be for the better also, as the poorest environments are improved and individual lives in general, all within a lifetime, basic simplicity.
The current policy is not improving individual lives, it's simply increasing numbers and ruining our homeland, not to mention resources to sustain us.
To live a good life in Britain and survive we do not need to endlessly cover it with people and concrete.
I question how intelligent our powerful are - I don't evaluate the fantastic gift of life by "economic growth", I evaluate it by "individual contentment".
Gerald Bull,
Four Acre Mead,
Bishops Lydeard.