It makes no difference whether Haywards Heath gets new traffic lights or not (Opinion, July 7). Traffic is already extremely congested and the situation will worsen before the proposed relief road is started.

As a town councillor I have attended public meetings, made site visits and discussed the implementation of a rather imaginative housing development in response to local need and Government directives.

This development will be phased, in conjunction with a relief road serving the A272 trunk road, but its completion is dependant upon another housing development near the local hospital and bridging the London-Brighton railway line.

The route avoids the major estate referred to but does not wholly upgrade a stretch of road leading to the Cuckfield bypass.

I have expressed concerns that while the housing could be completed there is no planned completion or opening date for the relief road. Is it our complacency that enables the developers to win in this Catch 22 situation?

-Councillor Richard Bates, Boltro Road, Haywards Heath