ON York's Malton Road, CD Bramell's request to expand its workshops and showrooms was rejected as "inappropriate as they would mean the loss of green belt land" and Coun Janet Greenwood said: "York should keep hold of every bit of green belt" (September 12).

Having set this precedent, I presume the council will deem the proposed building of York University's Campus 3 at Heslington on a large area of prime agricultural land in the green belt as very inappropriate.

Surely the scale and size of the proposed buildings, plus the loss of farming land, exceeds the criteria given for the rejection of the above application.

Also there would be a greatly increased level of traffic on an already overloaded system and a further increase in the number of students being accommodated in quiet residential areas, leading ultimately to the type of situation that already exists in Leeds, for example.

The siting of a proposed Campus 3 on the brown field "teardrop" site in York would seem to solve many problems.

T Tolhurst,

Hall Park, Heslington, York.

Updated: 10:07 Monday, October 13, 2003