I WROTE recently about the missing landscape officer's report on the CALA planning application to build 46 houses in Malvern Wells, all within the Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

I am pleased to report that this missing document previously withdrawn from the planning website will now be available in full for all councillors considering the application on April 22.

It includes 13 sections omitted from the resubmitted report.

It is now clear not only that all of the local respondents oppose this major development in the AONB, but also that it is clearly opposed by the AONB partnership, the parish council and Malvern Hills District Council's own landscape officer (who had apparently exceeded his remit by making comments on the landscape impact of the proposed development).

Malvern Hills District Council are saying that they are not sure whether there is sufficient demand within the parish for the affordable houses, and Worcestershire children's services are saying that primary age children will have to travel three miles to Welland as there is no space in the local schools.

Almost all new residents will have to seek work out of Malvern Wells.

Is this a "sustainable" development? No.

Have Cala proved the necessary "exceptional need" to justify a major development in an AONB? No.

Should permission be granted? No.

Peter Walter

Malvern Wells