I read with interest your column, "Torpoint Today" in the Cornish Times and in respect of a proposal to erect six light industrial units at Millbrook.

My immediate reaction was "we've been round this buoy before." I refer to a FOUR DAY public enquiry on a similar scheme plus a Marina, which was proposed in 1991. (Caradon Planning ref 91/0267). That enquiry cost the ratepayers a lot of money and yet despite the clear recommendations of the enquiry we have Caradon District Council bringing up the same "old chestnuts" of new jobs for Millbrook.Apart from the obvious question, "what sort of jobs?", let me recap on some of the recommendations of the 1991 enquiry.

1. The developer of the site should bear the total cost of providing a link road to the site. (Thereby avoiding increased traffic flow through Crafthole, Antony and St John).

2. The area then proposed for the industrial site was contaminated land which when surveyed showed high levels of arsenic, copper and zinc and furthermore to an unknown depth.

3. The hazards to residential areas close to such a site on which children were likely to play, particularly during the development phase were considered to be unacceptable.

Because of these and other recommendations the plan for development was rejected at the time by Caradon District Council by 15 votes to five.

I now wonder how the dangers and objections listed above and other points raised in the 1991 report have been resolved, without it being brought to the attention of the residents of the Rame Peninsular.

To the best of my knowledge no work has been done to overcome the problems, all that has happened is a passage of time.

Can we really afford, as ratepayers, this waste and this type of local government?

W.J. Barnes

Chairman of RAMPAGE

(Rame Peninsular Action Group)

Crafthole.