I CANNOT understand anybody wanting to live in the proposed development on the Falmouth Recreation Ground. I have two young children and when I picture those affordable units crammed in together with the expensive ones. Did somebody say up to 130? It will ruin the other properties nearby as well. Has anybody from the council asked the nearby residents what they think about this and, of course, the substantial devaluation to their properties?

Even more importantly with the Recreation Ground sandwiched between Tregenver Road and Dracaena Avenue the parents of the children on the estate will, if they are anything like me, be petrified every time they go out of sight, in case they get run over on these hellishly busy roads as they will have to cross these whether they are going to the school or the town or Kimberley Park. A walk to the beaches will mean excited kids negotiating the Killigrew roundabout!

All day long the residents will be confronted with split second decisions on whether to cross the road or not. If it wasn't so dangerous and stupid the planners could possibly carry out an experiment by observing as their own children and grandchildren take their life in their hands as they cross and re-cross these potential death trap roads. Even mature people have been knocked down on these roads.

I read that Carrick district council previously refused development on this site for environmental/traffic issues. How right they were.

I ask the present councillors to look at this issue very carefully indeed. It is your duty and ultimately your responsibility. Not to mention your consciences that you have to live with in the event of a tragedy alongside the possible consequences every day for the rest of your lives. You will be brave people (or fools) to go against the previous refusals.

Sara Jones, Wellington Terrace, Falmouth