CAN I just observe that there certainly needs to be a better way of helping developers co-ordinate the sort of project that Alex Rowley was talking about.

It seems amazing that when a company has plans for 900 homes that there is no method of helping them install things like schools and health centres when they are quite prepared to pay for them in the long run.

There needs, maybe, to be a halfway house that can assist in making this happen.

You do not have to be a mathematician to work out that no organisation can shell out millions of pounds before they have not even put one brick down.

That obviously houses have to be built and sold before funds become available to build a school is plain so surely there has to be some way of sorting all this out.

I think Alex is quite right to try and force some hands on this.

This 900 homes plan is one of the biggest we have seen in this village since the first house was built as the coal industry started to grow.

It will, I think, turn Kelty into a small town so clearly a new school is needed as is a new health centre.

No doubt the developers will be able to provide these but you cannot whip these up out of nothing.

It takes cash and quite a bit of it and it will need a lot of homes built and sold to be able to fund such projects.

It is right that if authorities expect facilities to be built they should provide the right sort of circumstances to ensure that this is a doable thing.

I would like to think that somewhere along the line something is done to make sure that the village gets the chance of seeing this investment come to it, it would be a big loss if it did not happen.

UNHAPPY,

Keltyhill Road,

Kelty.