REGARDING the The Holmes Chapel Aldi store.

Progress will occur. However, any sensible person or authority would first ensure that they had the required infrastructure and services in place before it takes place.

Despite warnings, Cheshire East Council and its forerunners have ignored this equation with damaging results.

There may be a need for an Aldi store — but considering that it would attract customers from all around the area, none should be built, given the inadequate infrastructure and services of Holmes Chapel.

The roads in Holmes Chapel are inadequate to cope with existing traffic let alone any more traffic resulting from developments such as the Aldi store.

Consider all the housing developments that are to take place because Cheshire East Council have not compiled an acceptable local plan.

Never mind developments that are in the pipeline — consider the plan to build a Sainsbury's superstore and a large petrol station off the A50 and more than 200 houses on the site.

All these developments will bring more and more traffic through the village.

Consider the traffic layout on the approaches to the village. Consider the narrowness of Middlewich Road, Macclesfield Road and London Road, especially near the parish church. Consider the railway bridges on Station Road and Macclesfield Road that are close to Manor Lane. Consider the flows of traffic from the M6 that choke Holmes Chapel.

Let progress occur — but only after plans to cope with its effects have been properly designed and then implemented.

John Dutton Knutsford