This market town with local independent shops and traders will become another 'copycat' town of multiple stores, with their monopoly rules and marketing, and staff (if you can find any) with no time to assist or listen to customer needs.

There will be shoppers hurrying and scurrying to get back to cars with time-limited parking, no time to stop and stare or speak and communicate with each other.

We should preserve our Capital of the Wolds, with its individual family butchers, displaying the names of farms where meat, chicken and eggs come from, our local bakers, greengrocers and farm shop instead of national stores with their juggernaut lorries (air-miles and pollution to environment) trying to deliver supplies on roads originally built for horse and cart.

I would like to see some community provision on the cattle market site - for example for mums/tots and senior citizens during day-time and youth in the evenings - together with limited residential development and flat conversions above business premises in the main street to keep the town alive during evenings and weekends.

Mrs B D Jakins, of Orchard Close, Nafferton