AS a born and bred villager, I'm for development.

We have turned from a small vibrant village to a stagnant backwater with three-quarters of the village people moving into housing developments within my lifetime.

They arrived, worked elsewhere and used the village facilities rarely, forcing most of them to close.

The school is Church of England and the land adjoining is glebe so there is no problem for extentions.

My father gave his land for what is now the school playing fields.

Assuming the school is full and the Government doesn't fund extra rooms and teachers should I understand that everyone now in Harvington and Norton are to be regulated on how many children they can have?

The sewers and roads must be made adequate for the village and size of development passed.

Roads can lead straight out onto B roads either side of the village, bypassing the internal roads.

As for work I can show you 20 jobs not two miles from Harvington that people won't do because of government handouts.

I have listened to conversations in the shop which are truly xenophobic.

As I don't recognise the names of the letter senders last week (September 25) I presume that they bought homes here and moved into the village.

We villagers are few and far between, and had we said 'no' to development I wonder where they would be?

I want my grandchildren to be able to live in the village they were born in.

Louise Bryant

Harvington