SIR — Your correspondent Alison Stephenson from Bridgwater (Your Letters February 22) takes issue with the residents of Woodcombe for opposing a plan for housing there.

What she fails to mention is that the proposed housing is in a conservation area of Minehead, our gateway to beautiful Exmoor. I don't think industrial Bridgwater quite falls into this category!

Moreover, the proposed housing, despite the planning officer's report, is not in keeping with its surroundings, would not benefit the residents and would destroy the natural environment of an open space.

Residents of Woodcombe in particular, as well as those in Minehead, all need to fight to safeguard our local heritage and natural environment from greedy, unscrupulous developers building unnecessary housing with limited infrastructure to support the supposed influx of residents and, if this meets the definition of a Nimby, then I'm more than happy to be classed as one.

Richard Robinson,

Bratton Lane,

Woodcombe.