SIR — Your article on page 13 (Chronicle, September 10) used an example of ‘planners’ jargon’ to describe the Barton Farm countryside.
It is telling that the explanation of the term made no reference to agricultural use or a lovely view, which may explain why the planners ignore those aspects as they look to despoil one of the most picturesque approaches to Winchester.
If they were to spare the fields to the north of the line of beech trees along the top of the ridge, they would both preserve that approach and some useful farmland.
And also avoid a continuous sprawl of housing from Winchester to the end of Springvale.
John Duckworth, Five Bells Lane, Nether Wallop, Stockbridge.
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