ANNIE Riddle's bombshell article concerning a pre-app for more development on over capacity Southampton Road beggars belief.

Developer funded tinkering is the very best we could hope for from any Highway Agency intervention. The very Highway Agency that by default allowed the McDonald's drive [thru] and the ghastly hotel to be built .

It took 6,000 protesters and non Tory councillors and behind the scenes unhappy Tories to stop the closure of the information centre. The casualty being the award-winning centre manager.

There is no such democratic route to the highways agency who have a bad record on consulting anyone.

In fact they might as well move to Moscow. They do share a lack of concern for local people and their economy.

Greg Condliffe

Salisbury