EVERYONE should read the letter from the Planning Inspectorate on the appeal by Sainsbury on the B&Q site.

The inspector has taken apart the traffic assessment used to support the planning permission and torn it to shreds.

It would be wonderful if the same inspector could turn his attention to the traffic assessment for the Community Stadium.

In 2012, when only the stadium and enabling Vangarde development was proposed, the council determined that the road network, though stressed, could just about cope with the new traffic and so, on balance, the proposals could be approved.

But when subsequent applications were lodged for massively increased development, the traffic issue was somehow no longer critical.

However, if the objective mind of the independent planning inspector at the B&Q site were to be applied with the same degree of vigorous analysis at Monks Cross, I’m sure there would be a very different conclusion.

Matthew Laverack, Lord Mayors Walk, York