I note from reading the Gazette (August 9) that Lakeside is going to be transformed into a town WITH MORE HOUSES and Purfleet is going to be Purfleet on Thames maybe with EVEN MORE HOUSING (although it’s not been mentioned).

We have had our area built on and built on and guess what with NO NEW HOSPITAL yes I have read our beloved Orsett Hospital will not close until other units have replaced its services (“great”) and then it says the land where the final bit of Orsett Hospital stood will be sold and the money put back into the NHS.

I wonder who the land will be sold to let us guess what about Barrett or some other builder for you’ve guessed it more houses and still no new hospital.

Can anybody hear us, we are shouting ,we have waited long enough, we need, we deserve we will beg if necessary a new hospital for this area. Basildon is bursting at the seams and it needs help to cope with our ever increasing local communities, please somebody hear us...

PATRICIA DUKE

Ruskin Road

Stanford-le-Hope