OH what a lovely childhood we had growing up in Westhoughton walking and playing in the beautiful green fields of wild flowers, rabbits, hares, all kinds of birds and wildlife in abundance.

We have watched as our green fields have been taken one by one and in their place housing estates and now they want one of our last open spaces for a "super estate".

What are we leaving for future generations to enjoy as we have done? We will only be able to tell them how it once was.

We hope this land will be removed from the UDP as it is a green field site and government advice is to use brown field sites for development, clearly the UDP is now out of date.

Park Road cannot take any more traffic. There will be a grid-lock at the Chequerbent roundabout and on the A6.

If this scheme gets the go ahead we hope the powers- that-be who sanction it, will realise the long-term effect it will have on the people, the environment and the wildlife of Westhoughton.

Leave us alone, we have had enough.

Mr & Mrs A Riley, Park Road, Westhoughton

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