I would like to comment following your article on The Crown Estate plans in last week’s paper, and a subsequent visit I made to the exhibition in the Town Hall.

It concerns me that the infrastructure is not in place and not planned to be put in place before any new homes are built in Marlborough.

The town has suffered in the last few years due to a massive increase in through traffic since the A419 past Swindon became a dual carriageway to link the M5 to the south of England, and then we have had the St John’s developments.

The Salisbury Road is choked with traffic.

We are looking at the possibility of more than 400 extra cars coming onto that road daily (an average of two per home).

There are not sufficient jobs in the town and as a result people will have to travel and mostly to Swindon.

The Crown Estate has been trying to overcome objections in the proposed area for well over seven years. The previous reasons do not go away because they have not been addressed.

It will, contrary to the sales pitch we saw at the exhibition, result in an increase in traffic and pollution through extra travel, congested access, a school drop-off that will increase traffic on Salisbury Road again, destroy wildlife habitat and threaten their existence.

In short, we do not need it, quotas or not. It is in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Don Heath, Marlborough.