I read with great interest in last week’s Review Letters Creative Thinking.

I am sure that the writer of this letter had done his creative thinking when he thought up the idea that the development he has created in Parkend Road, Bream.

To those who are not aware of this Two Rivers Housing are going to demolish two blocks of semi-detached houses to make way for eight houses and five bungalows.

However when they obtained planning for this enterprise they forgot the paths and access to and from the site.

This is without doubt a fairly concealed entrance and exit and the people who live there, of who I am one have, over the years, one treated this with great caution.

The speed and volume of traffic that use the road has increased considerably since I have lived here.

The paths on this side of the road are in very poor condition and it is without doubt a health and safety issue.

Now Mr Jon Coe who is the operations director of this enterprise along with colleagues have put their heads together and come up with the idea to make the private householders pay for the repair to the paths and also the surveys that has been carried out on the land and the wildlife experts he has brought in.

When people bought these houses, some from the council others from a third party, there was a clause which states that if something goes wrong on your property, i.e. you block the sewers up and it affects your neighbour, it is your responsibility to repair and pay for the work.

Now this has worked well over the last 30 or 40 years until TRH bought the housing stock from the council at a knock-down price and decided that they would charge the people for the grass to be cut.

Now they want to charge us for the paths and highways to be repaired.

Despite the fact that they are spending £1.4 million on this development and have had a donation from Forest of Dean Council of another £27,000 and still trying to screw the pensioners who live in these houses for who knows whatever the final amount will be for the repair to the footpaths that haven’t seen any attention in the time since the houses were built.

That is ‘creative thinking’.

Now this has really got residents angry and it will create a new precedent for the whole of the country.

This land is owned lock, stock, bad paths and all by TRH so why on earth would we want to pay money out for something we do no own?

We have paid our mortgages and all the other bills from our very small pensions

So TRH do some more creative thinking.

– Stuart Gray, Bream