SIR - The residents of Kingshill Park, Dursley, have organised a strong protest against the proposed demolition of 58 and 60 Kingshill Park and the plans to build houses in the gardens behind.

The residents object to this plan because of the wanton destruction of two perfectly good houses; they object because they know that the plans will irrevocably destroy the peace and safety of a lovely residential area and they strongly object to any increase in traffic leaving Kingshill Park and using the slip road to access the main Kingshill Road.

The slip road is used by parents to drop off or to collect children attending Rednock School. In addition, the buses discharge pupils directly onto this slip road in the morning.

Other pedestrians are forced, by the location of the pelican crossing, to walk onto the slip road. This is the road that the developers propose should not only sustain months of builders' traffic, but also, an increase of between 30 and 40 cars a day thereafter.

Residents visited the open day at Kingshill House to inspect the plans for the new Lister site development. The proposal is for 600 new houses. Few will object in principle to the use of a brownfield site for this purpose.

However, although the plans include ways to encourage people to work from home, the reality is that most new residents are likely to work in Bristol or Gloucester and present plans mean that they will be leaving their homes and driving up Kingshill Lane to access the A38.

The junction between Kingsill Lane and Kingshill Road is a three-way junction, the third part being one end of the access road into Kingshill Park. There are already very difficult decisions to be made about the plans for hundreds of houses in Dursley.

The plans for Kingshill Park would result in a net gain of 12 houses and four flats but the implications for the safety of pedestrians and the unneccesary increase in traffic onto the Kingshill Road suggest that they would be built at too high a price.

Marion Harper, Kingshill Park, Dursley