ALL APPROACHES to Hereford City are congested at peak times but there can be no equal to that created at most times of the day on the main Abergavenny and Ross roads.

The proposal to establish a Waste Treatment and Recycling Plant at Madley is nothing short of stupidity, in my view, which you paper reports could add 160 heavy lorries daily to the chaos already created by the free for all housing policy adopted by our planners, without concern for our outdated road system.

To allow all of this additional heavy transport along a C road (Stoney Street), is to say the least, totally irresponsible and has it occurred to anyone that the new bridge at Bridge Sollars will bear a considerable share of this additional traffic?

I wrote to your paper long before commencement of the new bridge to point out the lunacy of providing a new bridge capable of taking much heavier vehicles until such time as the dangerous and narrow lane leading to Madley was improved.

So far as I know nothing has been done in this respect. Develop the industrial site at Madley by all means but for goodness sake be a bit selective.

An industry that revolves round constant flows of heavy vehicles is hardly one which could be considered suitable for this site. Surely, Moreton on Lugg is far more suitable.

It is on an 'A' class road, as has already been said, but has everyone overlooked the fact that they have an existing railhead, and in time it may be possible to utilise our remaining rail system to feed the operation. Loading could be achieved at various locations along the individual lines, which surround Moreton obviating the constant nuisance as has been envisaged for Madley.

So the cost would be prohibitive? No problem. Let the foreign firms that the council seem so fond of meet the cost.

L E MASON,

Rectory Meadow,

Eaton Bishop, Hereford