AFTER reading about the 61 apartments proposed to be built on the old ATS site in Norton, I was pleased to see that Lindsay Burr, who owns the site, only bought it so it can be tided up and to provide housing for local people and not to develop the land and make a vast profit, because that was never the intention.

It could be turned into a car park, which would be well used and, when it floods, as it always has done, there will be no properties flooded and when the county council closes the library, as they will do because Norton library is underused, we, the people who live in Commercial Street will have somewhere to park.

And may I remind Lindsay Burr, that the street is called Commercial Street, not Residential Street.

Also, as I stated with all the other developments going on at this moment in our towns – Beverley Road, Broughton Road, Scarborough Road, Castle Howard Road – can our doctors, schools, hospital and the drains cope with all these developments.

I am just a person who looks at it from a layman’s point of view and I am not educated enough to say we have the infrastructure to cope, we have planning officers to do that and I don’t think even they would allow more building work, would they?

Mark Webster, Norton