Madam, I recently read your article on the prospect of 450 houses being built on land at Wonastow Road (Front Page, 20th May). Although the town council have grave misgivings about the proposal, it is accepted the plans will go ahead, the Welsh Government will make sure of that. Monmouth is expected to build its share of housing stock to make space for everyone who wants to live on this crowded island of ours. My issue with the increase in the size of Monmouth, which began 10 years ago, is that it's all very well building new houses to make money for developers and the local authority, who will benefit from the surge in householders paying council tax, but where is everyone going to work/ school /be buried? Our cash-strapped council can only afford, with Welsh Government support, to build a secondary school 'fit for the next 60 years' which is exactly the same size as the one they are knocking down. Raglan's much heralded new eco-friendly school is, also, the same size as the one they are replacing. Most schools within the Monmouth catchment area are pretty full, we only have two doctor surgeries, and it is a lucky person who can find an NHS dentist for ourselves and our kids. We now have no minor injuries facility in the town, that disappeared shortly after our replacement for the hospital on Hereford Road was built. So any serious injury is dealt with in a neighbouring town; how long will it be before Torfaen's Critical Care facility at Llanfrechfa replaces all but the most menial of medical emergencies? When we die, we are now cremated at Cwmbran, or over the border in the Forest of Dean, as our cemetery has no space for burials, despite money being spent on looking at a new site at Penallt. So can we assume the only people looking to move to Monmouth will be healthy childless couples, who work out of town, whose life-expectancy is going to be much better than mine, having hung on all these years hoping to be buried where I grew up and went to school! (Name and address supplied)