AT a time when we are celebrating having a wonderful new mural in Okehampton it is a great shame to go further along Crediton Road and be faced with enormous white hoardings.

This leads me on to the amount of signs there are advertising and directing us to the new buildings we do not want (salt in the wound).

It starts with the yellow AA-type signs on telegraph poles, even the ornamental ones in the High Street, which usually look very attractive with their banners.

Now I see big brown boards by the roadside, in gateways to fields, and, to top it all, as you drove along the A30 from the west towards Okehampton there is a 60ft-long banner. When is enough, enough?

Once again, the hanging baskets have gone up to add a splash of colour and enhance the atmosphere. Surely if you really want to find these new homes you use a satnav?

J an Gilmour

Abbey Rise

Okehampton