S Hall, of Badgers Green, Kingsbridge, writes: I have lived, worked and played various sports in and around our town since 1969. I am not against sport – it is a vital part of normal health at all stages of life. I also care for our pleasant rural town and the once unbroken skyline across the ria valley, with the town and its housing clustering in the shelter of the valley sides and in sympathy with the ­terrain. The view on page two of the November 28 Gazette shows the temporarily lowered poles of the 'high lights' at Kingsbridge Community College's all-weather sports pitch. The lighting poles, even in their lowered state, are intrusive to the skyline and, when upright and operative, can be seen from many of the best vantage points on the ­hillsides and approach roads to the town. You do not need to go far to see their effect. Come down Church Street, a main feeder road into the town, and look up at the skyline. Come into Kingsbridge along the east bank of the estuary and look to your left as you approach the estuary head, supposedly a focus of attraction and an ­introduction to the town ahead. Go to the opposite hillside or stand at the roadside below the South Hams Hospital when the lights are in use and note what dominates the nightscape. The copious shielding put on the lights was not put there to keep the residents happy, as per the comment in the same issue of the Gazette. It is wrong to use the residents as an inverted kind of benevolence. The residents – and others – had already done what they could by the formal process of objection. There were more than 50 letters of objection, many of which predicted what is happening now, but these were given scant regard. I have the lux levels given to me by the officers present on the evening of February 6, 2013, when the lights were turned on. They were over twice what they should have been. The large shields were put there because the lighting levels did not conform to local council levels and also the national statute. It would be easy to point a finger at me, as I happen to live near to the lights, but I care about Kingsbridge 'the town'. I have footage of the light poles waving like daffodils in a strong breeze during the winter gales of February this year. One pole, considerably higher than the rest, was whipping in the wind and I feared for anyone passing by and the roofs of nearby homes adjacent to and under the lights. These lights and their poles are clearly not suited to the exposed hilltop and are an ­accident waiting to happen. I am assured that the environmental health officer will give me his assessment and his readings when the lights are repaired, but figures do not illuminate the reality of the problems.