Lana Stephens, of Bryher Stones, Kingsbridge:

On Sunday morning my husband and I were lying in bed enjoying the sound of the birds busy nesting in the eaves of our house which sits on the corner of Higher Union Road.

It struck me that if Mr Trembath of Quay garage and the good people of Morrisons get their way this will soon become a thing of the past. Morrisons have proposed the new filling station to be situated directly opposite our house.

We have lived here for 10 years and while we accepted that we had Quay Garage, Palladium, ATS etc pretty much on our doorstep we never had cause to complain albeit with numerous delivery artic lorries blocking our driveway on many occasions and Mr Trembath's car transporters parking directly outside our house at all hours making entering and exiting Higher Union Road hazardous.

We reasoned they had been trading for many years and who are we to move in and then cause a fuss?

However, the proposed new filling station is at best ill conceived and at worst utterly ludicrous.

No consideration whatsoever has been given to the fact that this is a residential area with no means of altering the present road layout to accommodate the increase in traffic.

In principal I welcome the prospect of cheaper petrol and feel the competition will give us the consumers more choice, the addition of Tesco in the last couple of years is a good example of more choice and value for money for the towns' residents .

There are many families in this part of town, old and young, whose safety will be jeopardised by the surge in traffic, not only domestic traffic seeking cheaper fuel, but even more by delivery lorries, tankers etc.

Also the noise, light and air pollution this will generate will be intolerable.

Can you imagine the levels of traffic during bank holidays. I also imagine a petrol station would be open from dawn til late at night.

As mentioned before we have busy companies operating in this road but there is practically no inconvenience, noise or disruption after 5-6pm or at the weekends.

It appears the safety and convenience of the residents of Higher Union Road and the Redford Estate is of no concern to the people proposing this ridiculous idea.

I can also safely assume that those backing this proposal do not actually live anywhere near here.

I wonder if the residents of Bantham or Galmpton who contributed to your letters page last week would be so wholeheartedly supportive of this scheme if they faced the prospect of waking up on a Sunday morning to the sound of delivery lorries and hordes of vehicles chugging their way past their homes?

This is not a case of 'not in my back yard'. More 'not on my front doorstep or anyone's.