SO AN “emotional plea for affordable homes” (Echo 21 July) persuaded our county councillors to ignore the carefully considered advice of the council’s own Planning Officer, and their own Local Plan, and to provisionally approve a large development of 80 homes on a green field in Broadmayne village.

Councillor Graham Carr-Jones (North Dorset) who made the emotional plea, told the meeting that 100% of the homes would be affordable.

And he said that 100 people on the housing register want to live there. If that were true, why did few, if any, of them contact the council to support the scheme?

There were over 100 objections to the scheme, setting out the many good reasons why it should not go ahead.

I am not a NIMBY; when I was a Broadmayne Parish Councillor I voted for a previous, sensible-sized, development of affordable homes which were built near mine.

Here’s my emotional plea to our councillors: when the application comes up again, please be sensible rather than emotional.

Once lost to the village, this green space is gone for ever.

Michael Denham

Broadmayne