Sir, I am sure many of your readers will have heard with disbelief the interview John Studholme gave on the radio on a possible industrial park and/or new village at Junction 36 of the M6.

I am not sure if he was propounding his party's policy, his own or the local council's, in seriously suggesting that the main approach to South Lakeland from the motorway with its beautiful open view of the Lakeland Hills should be disfigured by a rash of warehouses and urban sprawl.

According to his interview, he claims that the area might be 'enhanced' by such a development.

May I suggest that such a development be first tried out at New Hutton to see if local people there agree that a rural area can be so 'enhanced'?

He mentioned the development at the Penrith exit from the motorway as a glowing example to be followed.

What a mishmash of developments there are there but at least it is on a less sensitive site.

The proposed reopening of the Kendal Canal, he considered, gave 'transport opportunities' for the Junction 36 site.

Does he suggest that goods for the industrial development come by canal, or the local people buy canoes or rowing boats to get to any possible job opportunities created by such a development.

If this plan is serious and goes ahead, where will it stop? Join that development with Preston Patrick and Endmoor; join Endmoor up to Oxenholme and Oxenholme to Kendal.

Why not create South Lakeland's own Milton Keynes?

Of course, more jobs are required but there are other areas already blighted by planners nearer to existing centres of population where workers would find it easier to get to and have good A class road access.

Don't plant an eyesore in the middle of open countryside.

Steven R.

Beattie

Endmoor