SIR — I think it is shocking that farmland should be used for housing off Churchill Way in Watchet (Free Press October 23) when there is more than adequate space for 30 houses off West Street where the old Channel View cottages used to be situated.
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Come on West Somerset Council planners, time to wake up - there is space in Watchet, use it!
David Brain,
West Street,
Watchet.