SIR
Jennifer Price, while visiting Dixton Close, was surprised to see the "monstrous building" which is being erected on a subdivided garden there.
Think how much more the residents themselves are concerned.
The replacement of residential gardens by new development spoils the appearance of an area, removes greenness and amenity, destroys the small nature reserves which gardens offer to birds and other wildlife, and reduces the ability of the land to absorb rainfall runoff and prevent flash flooding.
It is ironic that the same destruction is affecting The Gardens, where we may soon have to change the street name.
I am especially shocked that Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls should have so little concern for its neighbours that it has applied to turn the front gardens of two houses in The Gardens, which it has recently acquired, into a car park.
Rather than extend its car park in front of the school, where there is land aplenty, it wishes to inflict the nuisance on neighbours in a residential street.
What does the school teach its pupils about civic responsibility?
Phil Bly
(Monmouth)