Yet another headline of Kennet District Council being 'bribed' into allowing more housing to be built near to the already overused London Road (Gazette, August 12) with offers of a new school, enhanced leisure facilities etc.

Does the town really need yet another primary school and where will people access this? Off the London Road? Via the no through Roundway Park Road? Surely the only reason another school is required is because so many extra houses are being built.

We have already heard of applications for housing on the Surecast site and yet another on the former Kverneland site. (Note the majority of new houses are being planned in Roundway parish. How long before the town council tries to change the boundaries again to gain more council tax?).

Will Kennet District Council stop at nothing until Devizes is turned into a dormitory and dead town? Where do they think these new homeowners are going to work? Not locally that's for sure as the town continues to see a decrease in local jobs. Estate agents advertise homes in the town with the enticement of "the major employment centres of Bath, Salisbury and Swindon are all within a 25-mile radius mainline railway stations Chippenham and Pewsey with services to London".

We have local heath trusts cutting services; soon the hospital will disappear and everybody will need to travel further afield. Where are these new homeowners going to find a dentist? Again Kennet shows its wisdom teeth by turning down a planning application by a NHS local dentist. It should be encouraging these areas of services, or is it because these types of applications are not as lucrative as the developers?

MRS M STEEL

Devizes