I’M very disappointed to read about plans to reroute the A59, causing months possibly years of unnecessary disruption on this vital road (The Press, June 13).

Despite there being a much better alternative of Flaxby to build these 3,000 houses, Harrogate Borough Council appear determined to press on with their extremely unpopular scheme.

Serious questions need to be asked of HBC as to why this is?

Those that accuse me of nimbyism ask yourself these questions: Are you happy that you as a taxpayer paid for a £4 million roundabout to a redundant, unused piece of land at Flaxby?

Are you as a taxpayer happy to pay even more to fund the millions of pounds for infrastructure, road, roundabout etc changes needed to do this at Green Hammerton when it is already in place at Flaxby?

Where will your food be grown once this top grade agricultural land is built on? It cannot be grown on the Flaxby site.

You will pay more for your food.

When you travel by car on the A59 between York and Harrogate it will be clogged by an extra 6,000-plus cars, plus 3,000 travelling to work at the Flaxby Eco Business Park, planned for construction, when they could have cycled/walked across to their jobs. The trains are already at capacity.

Are you happy to pay for children from these new homes, possibly thousands, to be bussed to other schools because the school at Green Hammerton is over maximum capacity?

Flaxby is the most suitable place to build these houses, there is no alternative.

Deborah Langhorn, Green Hammerton