I am horrified to see these plans for the most beautiful part of our village. Despite being a village of the Tas Valley, the villagers of Stoke Holy Cross do not have access to the river in any part of Stoke Holy Cross and instead must go to Caistor. This area is the only part of the village where we can see the river marshes. This site would ruin the character of this special place and reserve something for a very few which should be enjoyed by all. I regularly see barn owls and birds or prey hunting across this field. Stoke has already been altered so much by new housing up Long Lane; it simply does not have the infrastructure to support more development; the bus service has recently been cut, there is no shop, the school is overcrowded, there is no doctors' surgery and the pavement towards the proposed site is narrow and overgrown. I was born in Stoke and have seen this land flood many times, as it is supposed to do as river marshes; only a few years ago the flood water came well into the proposed site. Please resist this proposal for the sake of the people of this village who so enjoy this precious view and the environment we all enjoy in the Tas Valley.