Last week, I stood in a field. The grass was rich and tall, sprinkled with buttercups and dew. Bluebells, wild garlic and orchids grew in the copse behind me.

Birds sang in the hedges. The ground sloped down to a stream winding between alders and willows, where children play on summer evenings, enjoying the sort of idyllic childhood we would all want for our offspring. It was a perfect English May morning.

But it is this part of Bromham which local furniture manufacturer Mark Wilkinson, who claims to be so green, wanted to cover with bricks and concrete. So even if that incinerator were the cleanest in the world, we would still have opposed it because of where Mr Wilkinson wanted to site it, along with his disputed but very large number of houses in a beautiful valley of green fields, less than 100 yards from the church and village heart.

All the small group called Dove has done is to articulate the fears and concerns of a much larger group of villagers. The idea that most people in Bromham were in favour of Mr Wilkinson's proposals is at best wishful thinking, and at worst pure propaganda. All my own and other enquiries from a wide circle in the village have produced names of at most 20 people who support him, and almost all of them are his friends or employees. The huge turnout and vote at the parish meeting was a true expression of the village's views. All we want to do now is draw a line under this and move on, but Mr Wilkinson's associates seem unable or unwilling to accept this.

In several of the letters in the Gazette (May 27), Dove was accused of stifling debate on Bromham's future. This is very far from the case and I suggest readers look at the website www.doveonline.co.uk where, the idea that the village could become a beacon of excellence for recycling waste is put forward. I hope the parish council will look on these ideas more favourably than they did a couple of years ago, when they rejected a recycling bank for plastics on the grounds that there was no need for it.

Through composting and recycling glass, cans and paper, my family has more than halved its weekly waste. If everyone could do that, we wouldn't need any of the incinerators or waste plants Compact Power seems so eager to inflict on inappropriate rural sites.

MRS PAM THOMAS

New Road

Bromham