I CAN only assume that the writer of the letter headlined ‘houses needed’ in last week’s Journal is employed by Redrow or one of its subsidiaries, acting as a pie eating wind-up merchant or stupid.

I cannot believe that any sensible person who has lived in our area for any period of time could be happy about, or wish for more, housing development with the associated reduction in green, local history and interest sites and community facilities and the worsening of our current traffic problems.

Does the writer really believe that filling every open space in Leigh with houses will encourage Wigan to release a few more gold nuggets from its coffers to improve Leigh’s facilities?

John Bell

Leigh