Good luck to Annie Lennox!

Dear Sir, AS ever, Majorca appears to be driven by quantity rather than quality. Why not leave things as they used to be but improve their quality? More quantity means less quality. We returned to our beloved holiday island last month to find an “airstrip” being laid out east of Inca and many excavations being carried out on the Valdemossa road to the University for their new “underground” railway. If a real “clamp” on expansion had been enforced years ago, the island wouldn't be the “building site” it is now. What on earth are all these new blocks of flats doing in Palma? Who is going to occupy those new laid-out developments off the new Palma-Sineu road (on which millions of Euros have been expended)? The catalogue is endless. What's going on? Enough is enough. Let's stop all this opportunist nonsense now. Majorca is an ISLAND which, by definition, is FINITE. Please let us return to my initial thoughts. Let's improve the quality. There's no room for any more greed. No wonder the national bird is the crane! IT'S wonderful and very positive that a renowned Oscar-winning singer like is Annie Lennox is supporting any ecological initiative to help stop the more and more concrete and tarmac on the island. She is the sort of stars that we need, launching broadsides against the over-development which Majorca is now undergoing, rather than top models promoting stupid and absurd green cards along with memebers of the Balearic Government. With hundreds of thousands of tourists flocking to Majorca each year, there are more and more amongst them who are indignant about that urbanistic atrocities. I know scores of them who, after spending their holidays on the island, cannot believe their eyes on coming again to see so many new works in progress all over the island. I hope that the protest party which will be held next Friday may rally as many people as posible to launch an appeal never ever seen before in Majorca. Ploughing-ahead their urbanistic policies, the Balearic Government cannot turn deaf ears before such outcry . In her Opinion column (Majorca Daily Bulletin Saturday, October 25) Irene Taylor seems to be equating the local government's motorway programme with the destruction of Majorca. When I first came here nearly twenty years ago I was greeted by graffiti which read “Tunnel No” and not everyone was happy about the plans to build a ring road. Today I think most people would agree that the “Tunnel de Soller” and the “Via de Cintura” were very necessary and beneficial. Yet the children of those who protested in the eighties are now objecting to the current road building programme. Surely if we have more and more cars and more and more deaths on our roads, we need more and better highways? Those foreign celebrities who are going to fly in to support the Autovias No campaign have probably never had to drive from Palma to Alcudia or Manacor or to the local university in the morning rush hour. Perhaps they should consider supporting the campaign to reduce the consumption of polluting aviation fuel, by staying at home?