REFERRING to Les Williamson’s letter (Gazette, September 5), Conservative Malvern Hills district councillor Melanie Baker sought to distance herself from the issue he had raised. However, by doing so she cannot draw fire from her party leadership cohorts.

Councillor Baker drew a distinction between being a backbencher when standards committee chairman, as opposed to a frontbencher more recently.

But she was not a backbencher when Street Scene installed two CCTV cameras at her ward shopping centre. Her job was to seek adequate resources to prevent one of them being reassigned less than a year later, but she only jerked into action when the next spate of shop break-ins took place.

I hope that the councillor won't distance herself from the issue of 400 more houses planned for the area and the infrastructure problems that it throws up.

I challenge her to prove how it will work and where the infrastructure is going to be provided: doctors, dentists, schools, and parking in Barnards Green?

Martin Lawrence

Malvern town councillor