TOMORROW the planning committee will be faced with making a decision on a huge development at 26/28 Tadcaster Road, on the York side of the junction with St Helen's Road, York.

The proposal is to demolish two fine detached houses and a bungalow and to replace them with two three-storey blocks.

In this conservation area, such soulless monstrosities would have a significant presence and would dominate the road to the extent that they would damage the character of the area, swamping the adjacent single dwellings.

A large volume of traffic will be generated on to Tadcaster Road, almost directly across a bus stop, within yards of one of the busiest junctions in the city. This proposal is contrary to planning decisions of recent years to decrease and remove traffic away from this junction.

This is a "resubmission proposal", almost identical to one which the planning committee overwhelmingly rejected just over a year ago. I hope that the councillors will again exercise their common sense approach, look after the interests of their constituents and community and reject the proposals in their present form.

David J C Evans,

Mayfield Grove,

Dringhouses,

York.

Updated: 09:45 Wednesday, March 15, 2006