You may want to think that - but planning law actually requires the opinions of neighbours to be considered, especially where it involves loss of green and open space.

 But you are wrong - this issue is more than just that:

More houses will create more demand on the local schools and other services.

Its not just the people who live in Manse Crescent who walk their dogs, pincic etc on this land.

The principle of selling open space for capital receipt affects all of us wherever we live.

The police report a significant rise in petty crime in Houston - destroying recreational space cannot help in the fight against rising levels of crime.

 You may not think it, but it is imporatnt to retain the character of Houston - Moderator Andrew Herron did in the 1950's, if he hadn't Houston may have been a concrete jungle now, like the other early 1960's new towns.