I read with interest E Taylor's comments regarding our MP, Des Turner (Letters, February 13). Building a sewage plant in Ovingdean would be absolutely criminal.
This is one of the very few unspoilt beauty spots that link the Downs with the sea. Certainly, it is farmland but the undulating slopes are a delight and have many footpaths.
The views are fabulous and there is quite a bit of wildlife - birds, moles, badgers, hedgehogs, mice, rabbits and, once, I spotted a crested skink. It is very much unspoilt.
I think Dr Turner should take a walk on one of the marked footpaths that rise diagonally towards the sea behind the magnificent 12th-Century Ovingdean church. Once he has reached a high point, he should stop, look, listen and think.
Roedean School is one of the most important private schools in our city. Digging out more than a million cubic metres of chalk next door (taking some three to four years to do) would have a disastrous effect on this lovely school and I could see it having to close down.
There has to be a better option and if Dr Turner thinks Southern Water can hide a sewage plant so well, it should hide it in the flat field behind Portobello after all.
Sadly, rather like Tony Blair to George W Bush, when Dr Turner backs any idea and snaps his fingers, all his party members just rally round and bark at his heels.
-Doris Burgess, Longhill Road, Ovingdean
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