SIR — My wife and I have received a consultation document on the "Draft West Somerset Local Plan to 2032 – Revised Preferred Strategy".

It appears to have been written in a language and format targeted at a bureaucratic type of person from the 18th century, with added 21st century jargon usually only used when the intention is to have the content pass over someone's head or create complete confusion.

What happened to plain English? This is – after all – just a request to find out what we think about development in our area, so why not ask the questions in a language that people will tolerate without falling asleep before they reach the second paragraph?

I quote just one sentence from which you can judge the tone:

"Having considered the revised Local Plan Preferred Strategy now being published for consultation: Do you consider that the proposed changes to the 2012 Preferred Strategy document highlighted in the Revised Preferred Strategy document, properly address the changes in the National Planning Policy framework? If not, how should the plan be changed?"

Well the first change I would make would be to demote the bright spark who wrote this rubbish to sweeping the streets!

No doubt someone at West Somerset Council will squawk that it is a legal document with wording laid down by statute from above, and if that is the case we should pursue this rubbish ever higher up the ladder until an accountable person can be found and dismissed!

Richard Gray,

Brushford.