I have been visiting this area for 25 years. Having had the opportunity to walk the proposed course with the developer’s representative and heard of the limited way the land is to be altered and the significant way the land is to be managed I fail to see how this is not a win win situation, politics apart.

At present the SSSI is being invaded by self seeded alien flora such that if left unmanaged for another 20 years it may well cease to be an SSSI and Coul Links will lose the landscape that makes it so appealing.

Andrew Brookes, Sheffield