THE terms ?infill disease? and ?barrack-style accommodation? used by your reader in his letter headed ?Stand up to the developers? (August 9) is utterly inappropriate to Tavistock. Infill is much to be preferred to green field development and when, as in Down Road, this utilises unwanted, and sometimes neglected, garden space all parties concerned reap the benefit. There is a more general benefit in the imaginative conversion of the foundries in Mount Tavy and Parkwood Roads and the workshop in Dancy Mews. They cannot be described as barrack-style nor can the new terraces at Lakeside, Abbey Mews, Fitzford canal side, Vigo Mews and the Manor Estate. And it is yest too soon to denigrate - or praise ? the properties being built in the former garden and builder?s merchant centres in Parkwood Road. The character of the town centre has not been adversely affected by any of those developments. But a unique situation has arisen at the old people?s rest room and a decisive no should be given to the developer?s proposal. G Kirkpatrick Parkwood Road, Tavistock
