ATTENDING a packed Goodworth Clatford parish planning meeting, I was pleasantly surprised by the strength of feeling expressed and the clear representations made against the appalling Skyline development proposals on Barrow Hill.

In recent months I have had several letters printed regarding these looming threats and in part bemoaning the lack of proactive and clear opposition from the parish council.

I have clearly been wrong to denigrate in this fashion and would wish to apologise accordingly.

Let’s hope the Test Valley planners will heed this very strong feedback and fully consider this overwhelming opposition to these outline plans, uphold both the village plan and the integrity of the settlement boundary by giving full credence to local opinion expressed in such a proper and democratic way.

The developer’s agent seeks to claim the settlement boundary was outdated and should therefore be overturned, yet it has only just been endorsed with the TV structure plan.

If it were to be breached by these 25 open-market houses and office block it would set a precedent which could open the floodgates and challenge the village line through the Test Valley area. Surely that would be a bridge too far?

Let’s hope that’s an end to these awful development threats around the village and the field in question goes down to wheat or barley again and never a final crop of bricks and mortar.

C Somers-Cocks, Barrowfield, Goodworth Clatford.