YOUR coverage of the proposals for West Hill Hospital (Residents choose supermarket plan, January 23) continues the misrepresent-
ation of the council's long-standing preference for a mixed housing development, which was applauded at all three public meetings on the future of this site.
The latest meeting, which so upset the West Hill Action Group, exposed ASDA's woeful ignorance of the problems this site presents.
It also showed the unwillingness of decent local people to risk the quality of our residential environment, and the safety of school children, to save tuppence on a toilet roll.
Our elected councillors are neither that cheap, nor so stupid as to believe shiny new supermarkets make us eat more sprouts.
Four hundred and fifty jobs on this site means 450 lost elsewhere.
What's the point of that?
Richard Wiltshire
King Edward Avenue
Dartford
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