SIR – I totally agree with A R Callendar (Letters, December 12).

There are brown field sites available in our village and there is no need to build on green belt land. This will go against our parish plan, cause traffic chaos, exacerbate flood risk in an already waterlogged field, and as over 200 houses are already being built on the Manywells site, covering the need for ‘rural affordable housing’ in this area, this does not meet the planning department’s criteria of ‘special circumstances’.

I trust our planning department will refuse this senseless application.

J Hardaker, Turf Lane, Cullingworth