Having read the on-going saga relating to Higher Newham Farm and the proposed development there, could I please ask a number of questions on this matter through the letters pages of your newspaper?

If planning consultants A4 Architects say the development could subject Calenick to "Boscastle-type flooding," why weren't these concerns raised by developers Newham Farm Ltd in the first place?

Why are Newham Farm Ltd based in London? Surely our councils and various local authorities could be and should be using local developers, who, very significantly, will know more about local issues, ie, in this case, flooding?

Who is funding these developers? (Objective 1 again?) What does "limit visual impact" mean to a London-based developer? Presumably not the same definition to that of Calenick residents or others in the Duchy.

Who are these houses for exactly? (Are these more ghost jobs promised by SWRDA for the future?) How much will these houses cost? (More pertinently, will any Truro youngster under 30 actually be able to afford any of them?) More questions that nobody will answer as Carrick council continues to blindly and unflinchingly follow its Core Strategy Development Plan for thousands of new homes around Truro, based on highly-flawed government guidelines which will change radically once the government changes, and again five years on...

Meanwhile, for every several hundred houses built in Truro every year, it takes 10-15 years to consider a new road to ease current chronic congestion, or to move a school (Richard Lander) a few yards away, along the same stretch of busy road.

The over-development continues unabated and the government - both national and regional - gravy train steams ahead.

I will probaby be dead and buried when Truro is finally one big City incorporating Penryn, Re'Druth and Perranporth as its suburbs, but I feel desperately sad for our Cornish children and grand-children who will have the same "limited visual" outlook and the same air quality as Londoners, but without the roads, public transport or amenities. I suppose they will have a bit more wind...

Dr I L E Monk, Killigrew Street, Falmouth