IN Angel Place, I felt very angry at Sedgemoor representatives presenting the local development plan.

In line with the Regional Spatial Strategy, Bridgwater is to be targeted for "growth".

The promise is more jobs and house - the same empty promises that always accompany greedy developers and the raping of more green fields for endless warehouses and the benighted so-called "new Haygrove" school that locals are dead against.

What does growth mean? More concrete boxes for more people to move into the area?

Why? Why do we need endless incomers - most locals cannot afford new homes. Why are we allowing the decimation of our precious natural environment with its rare plans and animals?

So we can build more fast food outlets where flowers once blossomed and the new Haygrove with its pointless decking covering up fields where currently nightingales sing.

At the end of the day, it's all about profit. Profit for land-owning councillors who are also developers.

It's time the councils, both district and county, said no to everyone intent on decimating rural Somerset.

Stick your concrete boxes and land-grabbing warehouses where the sun don't shine and leave Somerset in peace so locals can enjoy our green fields and our rare wildlife.

Most of us don't want growth, we want open countryside, peace and quiet, stability and the places we know and love not to change too much.

I'd like to see the town council opt out of the "growth" myth and concentrate on preserving our beautiful landscape and unique towns.

I also hope the district council opposes the siting of the new Haygrove school and insist that if it's rebuilt it must stay on its current site.

Witless bureaucracy - if councils don't start listening to local residents, I would not be surprised to see riots.

Roy Franklin Wellington Road Bridgwater