I AM writing regarding the potential development on the Mount School playing field.

This is the first time I have been involved in a planning issue and I wonder if I am alone in thinking that the process is heavily weighted against local communities.

A Freedom of Information request showed that council officials have spent two years advising the developers with regard to satisfying exceptions to national planning requirements.

I am waiting for the council to allocate officers to work with the residents to carefully word their objections, which would then show that the national planning criteria exceptions have not been met.

In order to satisfy planning requirements the developers must submit certain documents. Some have not yet been submitted and another was only submitted two months after the original application and after objectors had raised the issue. Should the developers have expected better help and advice from the council?

It seems to me that this is not a level playing field (pun intended).

The intention is to sell off the level playing field and to retain the upper playing field which has a marked slope, and the lower playing field with both a slope and a history of flooding.

Jill Przywara,

Towton Avenue, York