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on the letter of Joan King last week about Robbie Hayter's "inconsequential" letters. Having lived in Devizes all my life, my sister and I and lots of our friends look forward to these articles. We all grew up in the Avenues and went to school together. It's nice to read his views and to reminisce about Devizes as it was then, a nice quiet little town, with a real community spirit.

Now our small town has grown, with modern housing developments ringing the town and reducing the areas where people can walk and relax, and now people are trying to ruin Quakers Walk. It's all about money, when it should be about people.

Gone are the fields and areas of gypsy patch where we used to play all day.

We do need houses, but do we need all these housing developments so close together?

Well, we say, carry on Robbie, write about the old Devizes where people came first and there was no such thing as mega bucks planners, who are only interested in getting more money out of every square inch of land, and have no idea about what people really need.

Shirley Crisp and Babs Moffat (nee Smith), Waylands, Devizes

11:19am Friday 2nd May 2008

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