I MUST say I was flattered Ian Topham trumped my quotations with one by George Washington.

The reason the council decided to ditch the contentious elements of the SWDP are pretty straightforward inasmuch as what was proposed in their place represented, in my view, the least worst option.

Let us be under no illusions; we live in dangerous times and the developers are poised to pounce. However, with the likelihood that the SWDP may well have been rejected we have nothing to lose by taking the route that we have now embarked upon.

CLIVE SMITH Malvern