• I AM astonished by what appears to an outsider to be a selfish, hysterical and backward-looking spate of communications that have arrived through my letterbox claiming that the scheme for the former Mansfield Bowling Club will increase traffic and air, light and noise pollution, harm the conservation area, limit parking for us residents, and bring security concerns.

For a start, by the time this project is complete, we will be well on the way to electric vehicle transport (I hope all those objecting have already made the shift) which makes much of the alleged traffic pollution objection nonsense.

But more importantly is development and particularly desperately needed care homes to be pushed somewhere the residents are less privileged?

I have no knowledge or interest in the scheme. I voted for all the councillors from the ward and am likely to do so again.

But helping them to be elected in this small way, I expect all of them and the officials to assess such proposals on their merits, taking account of need and the quality of building, etc, and not to be swayed by what looks to me like a selfish and pernicious effort at inducing paranoia.

The term community has nothing to do with this sort of behaviour. My wife Dr Paola Mariotti, and daughter, Miranda Tuckett (a graduate of both Brookfield and Parliament Hill, join me in these sentiments.

DAVID TUCKETT, NW5