I WENT to see the exhibition at Charter Hall outlining the proposals for major expansion of Okehampton in the next few years. What a fiasco! Who said we need 900 more houses here? Certainly not the residents of Okehampton. Planners are ineptly totally unaware of how much employment the 'business area' green fields might produce, but they do know there are 900 houses planned. Where will these 1,500 additional workers be employed? If it's Exeter, then they should live in the new town east of Exeter, not Okehampton. Recent relaxation of rules (a law passed quietly last autumn) allows Devon County Council to sell off land they own (farm fields) for housing development by private speculators. So who benefits? The landowning farmer, DCC and the house builder, none of whom really have the interests of Okehampton at heart and are merely profiting. We recently had 700 redundancies in Okehampton. I would expect the planners to be fully aware of the local employment figures and where people are working, to inform their development proposals, which should be sustainable and justified. Can we be told please? How can a further 900 homes be supported by local employment when no-one knows where the jobs are coming from? Also, remember the last broken promise for an additional primary school? The planners are doing it again. Bob Rush Okehampton