Sir – As I couldn't get my 39 prepared questions asked at last Monday's council meeting re East Street, I thought your readers might like to have fun trying to get answers to a few of them.

As we stand, the development brief requires that the proposals be "acceptable to the community".

Ever since the initial public workshops, the primary objective of the East Street project has been to address the unwanted Woolmead eyesore. The SCN (Sainsbury's) proposal precludes that primary objective; if it were implemented, the financial incentive required for the Woolmead's redevelopment would be lost until the day it falls down. So can the current proposals possibly be considered "acceptable"?

You might like to ask the portfolio holder for East Street:

• Do you therefore intend to revise the development brief in order to allow "unacceptable" proposals?

• Will you make public the original submission of the 'independent' CABE report comparing the proposals, which was rewritten (after consultation with Waverley) with the recommendation of an "alliance of developers" removed, the scoring altered and the SCN scheme promoted from third to first place?

• Will you explain to the people that attended the Gostrey Centre exhibition how they can have any confidence whatsoever in your assurance that their views were taken into account, in view of the fact that the proposals had already been scored and, in recognising the "clear blue water" claimed, the choice of developer had already been made?

• Why (after seeing the proposals) did you change the scoring criteria and weighting, in favour of schemes that deviate most from the development brief?

Of course, by the terms of the brief, the chosen proposal should have been disqualified because it failed to comply in so many respects. Indeed, they're still having trouble getting the proposal to meet the brief, so they've now decided to alter the brief to meet the proposal (and to ensure that our community facilities don't benefit to the detriment of Waverley's windfall).

If only Waverley realised how much it's really worth to Sainsbury's — but that's another story.

Does Farnham deserve better? Please do email me any decent answers!

Jeremy Hyman, [email protected]">[email protected] The Chantrys, Farnham