SIR – I would ask Mr Chapman to consider that some of the opposition to Tescos in Bingley (T&A, December 8) might be to the choice of the auction market site rather than to the firm itself.

Is it really sensible to place a supermarket next to a large secondary school and alongside the footpaths that the young students walk on to and from school?

Perhaps a more sensible site might be the now redundant Bradford and Bingley.

I would also ask him to consider the feelings of the residents of Crossflatts who face the prospect of more than 400 houses on the planned Sty Lane development, an enlarged Bingley Grammar School and railway station, two undesirable housing developments in the Sleningford area and now Tescos. The benefits of the bypass that he mentions are rapidly disappearing in Crossflatts and these planned developments will only make the situation much worse.

Perhaps we can trust our elected representatives to see sense and refuse planning permission.

M Scott, Sleningford Rise, Crossflatts, Bingley