I NEED to email you concerning the proposed housing development at Green Hammerton (The Press, June 13).

If there ever was a ridiculous decision concerning new housing then the one being mooted by Harrogate Borough Council fits the bill.

Here we have an area at Green Hammerton that has been designated a heritage site by Harrogate BC. This was stated in their own report paid with public money.

We have a site at Flaxby, adjacent to the A1/A59 junction that is more that suitable for a development of 3,000 houses.

Green Hammerton is on the A59, which is overcrowded at current traffic levels. A further potential 6,000 vehicles on a daily basis on the A59 is absolutely idiotic and dangerous.

Within the last two years Harrogate BC spent in excess of £5 million on a new roundabout just beyond the turn-off from the A1 towards Harrogate.

Only last week it was announced that a new industrial site for 3,000 new jobs located next to the closed golf course at Flaxby is envisaged. The golf course would take the majority of the 3,000 houses.

Harrogate BC keep saying that Green Hammerton, the new build would overwhelm the village, hence the name Great Hammerton, is their preferred site.

People in our village sense this is a political decision, firstly to have this amount of new houses away from the immediate Harrogate area.

Green Hammerton is already having 106 new houses built in the village, with a further proposed 90 along the A59.

Enough is enough especially when there is a more suitable site available for housing at Flaxby.

Alf Wood, Green Hammerton