IF the A338 roadworks are "crippling" Bournemouth now (Daily Echo, October 11,) in the words of the song, "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet."

This work is taking nine months just to lengthen one slip road. What is it going to be like if the council gets planning permission for a huge junction and bridge spanning the Spur Road, nearly on top of the Cooper Dean roundabout, affecting both sides of the road, demolishing the footbridge and the ancient cob barn? Years!

And for what? Not for a second entrance to the hospital as they cynically claim, but so they can build more office blocks on Wessex Fields which their own figures show will add hundreds more vehicles on the already congested Castle Lane East and West and surrounding areas. Worse still, as they admitted at a stakeholders meeting, these are not all new jobs, but will attract more businesses to move out of central Bournemouth. More empty office blocks, more empty stores, more congestion on Castle Lane East and West and more fly parking. Figures and timescales are all in the planning application.

W SHARP, chair, Holdenhurst Village Parish Meeting, Elm Cottages, Holdenhurst Village