Public enquiry 'may redress balance'
2:24pm Tuesday 13th May 2008
THE letter headlined 'Humiliating defeat awaits doctors' (Mailbox, May 7) is hardly a reasoned argument for or against the proposal, but shows considerable personal venom on the part of the writer with respect to the doctors involved in particular.
As a country which legally allows the process that is taking place in this matter, it would seem that the opponent of the scheme wishes to deny the patients served by the West Wirral Group Practice their constitutional right to support a public enquiry.
Not all the supporters of these proposals made their views known at the Town Hall meeting referred to in the letter. The public enquiry, allied to the petition to the planning appeal office, may yet redress the balance in this matter.
Perhaps if a more balanced view arises from the public enquiry this whole matter may receive the calm consideration of Green Belt versus service to the community that it deserves.
While no-one wishes to lose Green Belt land, the needs of an increasing large elderly population deserve a sympathetic hearing away from the baying crowd that attended the council meeting.
G. Crick,Thingwall Road,Irby