Dear Editor,

Lord Lymington’s family have been owners and custodians of English countryside for 600 years. Portsmouth Estates is wonderful Hampshire countryside, made up of local communities, productive agricultural land, and is home to a huge variety of native wildlife.

Once this has been built on, it will be gone forever, no longer there for the residents of Basingstoke and the local area to enjoy.

Lord Lymington states he wants to create a legacy for generations to come – he already has this legacy! Surely safeguarding the future of this area as an agricultural estate would be a much more fitting legacy than having a street named after his family on a housing estate??

Debbie Foster, Ellisfield.