IN RESPONSE to the recent letter by Eddie Jones, I would say that lorries parked overnight on the A38 is only part of what residents of the Vale have to put up with.

Stroud District Council planners have let the A38 become a messy blot on the glorious Gloucestershire landscape.

Working north from the county border, there’s a derelict hotel at Newport.

At Berkeley Heath, there’s a field full of broken down cars hidden by long grass (just a few yards down the B road), a car showroom and an industrial estate.

At Berkeley Road there’s an all-day and all-night(!) pizza caravan in a field, with a warehouse in the field behind.

At Gossington, there’s a derelict truck stop.

At Slimbridge a derelict warehouse and retail development creeping up to the roundabout.

Worst of all, Cambridge has a solar farm that ruins the view of Slimbridge church from the north, curiously supported at the planning stage by a large number of people living outside the district.

At Whitminster, there’s a huge retail development.

At Moreton Valence, lorry depots and warehouses, and more of the same but bigger, at Quedgeley.

Oh, I missed another retail centre next to the site of the incinerator at Hardwicke.

Compare this to the A40 from Gloucester to Ross – a road unaffected by the visual and commercial/industrial pollution that SDC has allowed to be inflicted on Vale residents.

But that’s covered by a different local authority.

J Young

Berkeley