Dear Editor,
What is the view of your correspondents about the place for industry in the Thames Gateway? We hear a lot about the need for brown field sites to be used for housing but this does not address the problem that for each brown field site used for housing development there is usually one or more workplaces that are lost to the community. Where are the jobs to come from if the production workplaces are lost to the community? The present strategy seems to be heading towards a situation where the only work available for relatively unskilled manual workers is in dimly lit warehouses at a wages barely above the minimum, loading and unloading goods made in the Far East.
Yours etc.
Michael Byrne
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