AS a long-term resident of Rushcliffe, I have noted with considerable concern in the Evening Post the fury of Jon Collins, the Nottingham City Council Leader, with regard to opposition to a proposed new football stadium, along with the odd few thousand houses in green belt at Gamston.

Personally, I am certainly a football fan but I do not want either the World Cup or, indeed, Nottingham Forest in a new stadium at Gamston.

There are more than enough stadia in the country to cope with the tournament anyway, if by some miracle it came to Great Britain, without constructing a white elephant in green belt at Gamston, the cost being supported by 4,500 new houses.

This appears to be a further effort by the city of Nottingham to expand its boundaries and locate its own quota of houses proposed by the present short-term Government into the surrounding areas, and should be wholeheartedly resisted.

It surely is time that the city leader got on with the job that presumably he was elected for, which is to improve the city, and leave the surrounding local authorities to their own devices.

If Nottingham Forest must have a new stadium it would be interesting to learn why the original site suggested at Clifton, which has easy access to the M1 and Midlands airport via the proposed improved A453 and will also be serviced by tram system, has now been overlooked.

PETER A DION Yew Tree Close Radcliffe-on-Trent