Earlier this month, the Comet reported that the council meant to sell land on the corner of Jubilee Way and the A240 in Tolworth for a plastics factory (Vacated land could ease growing demand for school places, April 3).

The administration and other interested parties must understand right now that this plot is part of the council’s King George’s Field holding and is still metropolitan open land.

For this and maybe other reasons, its sustainability for industry is questionable.

Arguably, the issue should be discussed publically by, at least, the south of the borough’s neigbourhood committee, before further moves to dispose of the site are taken.

The Easter holiday seems to have affected both paper and council.

The story came out just before with a slant, as if inspired by a Guildhall press release, alleging useful ramifications elsewhere.

The council planners issued the official notification to residents of the Tesco scheme on April 1, before days of no postal service, so it arrived on April 8, cutting the effective period for comments from 21 to 14 days.

This might as well have been intended to limit responses to the initiated few who know they can write long after the deadline.

Any local opposition – now normal life is resumed – to the council leadership’s wishes on the land sale, the Tesco scheme, the London Mayor’s tunnel idea and the connected development, plus any other over-development proposed for Tolworth, will not be politically motivated.

MICHAEL HOPE
Tolworth