I READ with interest an article about a primary school places problem with regard to the proposed 600 house development at the riverside Fairfield Mabey site in Chepstow.

I think that everyone without a vested interest could see these and the multitude of other problems that will arise if the development goes ahead with this number of houses and no new facilities – ie school places, doctors' appointments, nursery places, the traffic movements at the Tesco junction, etc.

I suggest that the developers build a new primary school, a new doctors' surgery and a large nursery within the development to cater for the hundreds of adults, school age children and babies who will live in these houses, many being new to Chepstow.

The "small number" of Tesco junction extra traffic movements per day previously suggested is obviously a joke and I had to check that it was not April 1.

Rush hour now at these lights is a nightmare – so add the new cars going out for work, school runs and town shopping in the morning, then the evening returns and you'll have a total shambles.

Extra vehicles stopped on Hardwick Hill will be pumping out many more tons of noxious gases and Larkfield roundabout, already rush hour disaster, can only get worse.

It seems that we may also get 300 houses on the right side of the old A48 at Tutshill. Add these vehicles to the by-pass, Sedbury junction queues and the Fairfield Mabey vehicles and Chepstow will become absolutely gridlocked at both rush hours and, I suspect, for most of every working day.

– Keith Baldwin, Chepstow.