THANK you for your excellent article covering the development of Blockley (April 23).

There is no point in creating what will become second homes in the village.

The famous spring-studded fields of beautiful Blockley may hopefully ruin the plans.

Blockley was one of the first villages in England to have electricity.

Its many mills in Victorian times produced silk for the Coventry ribbon trade. Those old mills now have been converted into homes, but the water is still there and those springs spring up in the most unexpected places at regular intervals.

The roads around the villages are narrow and ridiculously fast!

No attention has been given to try to slow the speed of copious traffic which would increase considerably if more and more development takes place.

As far as I am aware no positive results have been permitted to emerge following the introduction of a Neighbourhood Speed Watch.

There is a landowner who has been trying to get permission for some years to create a development that may close or change footpaths.

The wonderful Blockley Horticultural Society may well be forced off their allotments to create a further housing estate on well composted ground given to the village by the late Captain Spencer Churchill, who was a well regarded landowner in Blockley some years ago.

At a recent meeting my views on this fact were completely ignored by the wave of a hand by a newcomer to the village.

'Create A Lot of Agro' have already covered Moreton-in-Marsh in sufficient concrete.

One ponders about the next big flood for both Moreton and Blockley if over development takes place.

The views of the majority must be heard.

The minority who are willing to concrete over lovely land in an area of outstanding natural beauty are only interested in making money.

Frances Hoskins

Stretton-on-Fosse