REGARDING my earlier comment (Letters, July 19) that I could not understand the Burnley and District Civic Trust objecting to the large-scale planting of trees at the proposed Crow Wood Farm leisure complex in Burnley because "a valuable wild life site would be endangered and that widescale tree planting would change the very character of the greenbelt."
My point is that the Trust is committed to extensive tree planting projects, so why object to this one?
When planting on Worsthorne Moor was requested for 187 hectares and only 50 hectares were granted, due to the 'sensitive wildlife' aspect, Trust members were not pleased, so why have they now changed their mind? I asked specifically for an answer to this question without any reference to the proposed complex and Trust chairman Roger Frost (Letters, July 21), has not answered it.
ERIC GREENWOOD, Conservationist and honorary life member of the Woodland Trust, Hurstwood Lane, Worthorne, Burnley.
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