I HAVE been following Wirral Council's continued expenditure of our money on their vanity project - the Hoylake "golf resort" scheme - for some years.

We have all seen how after two international "Opens" Hoylake's profile was not raised sufficiently to get a developer interested.

Only when the council started to promote housing on their own Green Belt farmland did a developer appear and one which required the council to spend another £600,000 of our money ... not theirs.

At last someone seems to be in favour, your recent Mailbox correspondent Mr Armitage.

Unfortunately he does not explain how this "Housing Resort" will put Hoylake on the map.

It will be a building site with traffic jams for years.

Neither has he looked at any of the farmland evaluations available on the internet to realise that the farmland is perfectly viable ... just not if the council landowner has been threatening to sell it off for 15 years.

One must also assume Mr Armitage lives up on a hill somewhere otherwise concerns about changes to the flood plain from the "Housing Resort" would be uppermost in his mind, as it should be for all living by the Birket Valley in Hoylake and Meols.

A look at the Environment Agency’s latest flood plain maps should raise that profile.

Neil Parry, Meols