I NOTED in the Bolton Evening News of August 18 the planning law reference to infrastructure, facilities access, traffic implications, and, importantly, local residents' views, which Bolton Council take on board before handing out building permission.

One hardly ever hears about a large building plan being ruled out by local objectors. Local people's assessments seldom matter where money is concerned.

One only needs to travel through the Daisy Hill area to see how many new houses have been built. Doubtless those loving the countryside in general would have objected to building plans, but the objectors would have been squashed, ruled out!

Wigan councillors (especially the councillors representing Hindley and Hindley Green), don't appear to have been too successful in halting the "ruination" of the local countryside east of the Borsdale Brooks leisurely path (towards Leigh Road), as this former beautiful stretch of meadowland has become a massive housing estate, which affords no pasture land.

Land remaining near the Leyland Park, west of the old Hindley and Abram (once quite mighty) Grammar School, has disappeared, it is covered with new houses now. Despite objections, building went smoothly ahead, as expected.

The Hindley and Hindley Green I knew in 1952 as an Argyle Street schoolboy does not now exist.

Mr Kenneth Lucas

Park Road

Hindley

Wigan