There are some very disturbing parallels with the house-dumping destruction of Ashenground Wood and Titmore Wood ("History lost in one fell swoop", The Argus, December 17), and Ifield Wood on the outskirts of Crawley.

The Tory-controlled West Sussex County Council plays a decisive, pivotal role in all three cases. County Hall, with its apologists and appeasers, is beginning to find out you can only push people so far - push them any further and they will turn on you.

If the county councillors responsible for such development policy decisions persist in representing narrow self-interests that only correspond to their own and persistently fail to represent interests that correspond to the whole of West Sussex, the council taxpayers, representing themselves and the children who will inherit the county's future, will revolt against those who no longer can legitimately represent them.

On December 12, Tory County Councillor Tex Pemberton (cabinet member for strategic environmental services) was quoted as saying: "The draft structure plan aims to improve the quality of life for people living and working in West Sussex."

This is simply not the case - we taxpayers have had enough of weasel words and arrogant speeches. We must now judge councillors critically on what is being done, not on what is being said.

As council taxpayers, especially acting on behalf of our children and their future, we must call such elected people to account for the decisions they make on our behalf.

If we do not do this effectively and quickly, our children's inheritance will slowly disappear under concrete and car fumes forever.

There is an old Sussex saying that sums up the situation exactly: "You may push and you may shuv, but I'm hemmed if I'll be druv."

-Richard W Symonds, Scram Campaign for Hot School Meals and Playing Fields, Lavington Close, Ifield, Crawley