SIR: In response to a previous letter, I do not whine, I complain and rightly so!

The planning committee listened to the untruths and weasel words of the consultants and NOT the truths from the locals, so I do not trust the committee, I felt that they needed to dig deeper and use their experience to find the truth. If they had known about the large and very large lorries accessing The Limmers storage site along narrow rural lanes and the committee had still given planning permission, I would have accepted their decision, even though that decision is now causing chaos.

Here in the country, we wish to preserve our green and pleasant land.

Mrs J Syms,

Ashton Lane,

Bishop's Waltham

SIR: Further to Mrs Black's comments last month on the decision to allow HGVs down narrow lanes, I am sure residents in Winchester would be upset if a 65ft container lorry parked outside their houses, engine running, and used the hedgerow for a toilet, because he arrived after hours.

Can I remind Mrs Black that the public have an interest in the planning process and are entitled to understand how decisions are made. The system must be seen to be impartial. If correspondence is not answered citizens are justly angry.

Bismarck once said “if you like sausages and laws, do not watch them being made!”

Felicity Young,

Ashton Lane,

Bishop's Waltham

SIR: It seems Mrs Syms' letter asking for a better planning system has struck a chord across the South Downs Park area. Residents from Bishop's Waltham to Swanmore to Soberton and as far as Denmead complain that developers are allowed unrestricted activity across the park.

I don't understand why the South Downs National Park has opted out of planning and left it to the Winchester planners. By definition they are townspeople with a few exceptions and most don't even live in the national park. These representatives are missing the public mood making no visible effort to check the disgusting throwing of litter across our Park. Fly tipping abounds and public footpaths are adorned by dog poo bags left to be "collected" by the returning owners.They are still there weeks later. Has anyone noticed the revolting littering the slip roads of the M3 and A3 in our area? The insulation protesters would not want to spend many moments there!

Our countryside is precious to the whole community and we who live there want to keep it that way.

Dan Monk,

Park Lane,

Upper Swanmore