Oh no! Not another retirement home application on the old builders’ yard in London Road in Marlborough.

Nobody objects to housing developments on brownfield sites like this, and at Granham Hill, but Marlborough does not need more luxury retirement homes. It needs housing affordable to first-time buyers and young families. Otherwise a growing proportion of retired residents will only reduce the viability of facilities like the leisure centre, and further increase pressure on local health services.

We need our town council to develop a major campaign of opposition in the town to have any affect on the planners at County Hall.

G W Hutt, Ducks Meadow.