Chesil Beach is very fragile but protects Weymouth and Portland. A worrying aspect is the increasing amount of water building up behind the beach with nowhere to go.

From my observations the cause is large sandbanks and changing channels from the fleet and under the bridge. Whose responsibility is this?

Please leave the Ferrybridge Inn alone and in particular the route of a future western relief road. If you must, build low rise apartments on the Weymouth ferry site and preserve the theatre, then leave the old harbour to the fishermen and yachties.

I feel the county and local grandies should put the relief road back on the agenda. How about a partnership with Portland Port and some EU grants seemingly available to other countries?

Bring in the ferries, more cruise ships and complementary businesses. We need to create new jobs around this valuable deep harbour for the many people expected to fill the hundreds of new homes.

This could get rid of the poverty and reliance on benefits. Dismissing the relief road will sound the death knell for the area and the MEMO project will be a non-starting dead duck.

As regards tourism, the Jurassic coast has had more than enough exposure from TV programmes.

Roughly 20 years ago when the Navy departed I suggested most of the above to our local Conservative group as a long term-plan, but it was viewed as too futuristic.

Let’s get real and compete with Dorchester, which is sucking all the wealth from this area. Isn’t Portland still a Royal Manor?

Carola Deacon Connaught Gardens Weymouth