YOU only have to turn a few pages back in history to the late 1880s to see a period when the white settlers in America drastically affected the Indians with the first great land rush, consequently forcing them into reservations.

Looking at Davyhulme and the surrounding areas today, with the land still being the main issue, things have changed drastically, with most of the green belts transformed into concrete jungles and the increase in traffic since the Trafford Centre was built.

It may be good for the centre but not for the inadequate and overladen road network system around Davyhulme.

With the rot well and truly set in, it is now spreading to Flixton, where plans are in the pipeline to build on green belt land, especially on William Wroe Golf Course.

This would mean hundreds of more acres of greenfield sites going under the hammer. Slowly but surely, we are being squeezed to death, like sardines in a tin.

In fact, the way it is going history might repeat itself, because sooner or later we might all end up living in a reservation.

Harry Wild

Davyhulme