Dear Sir Re: 'Take your chance to talk rubbish' Mercury, June 26.

Everyone would agree with Cllr Brian Hall, when he says: "Waste is an important environment problem facing us all today. It is an issue that society needs to tackle. The Welsh Assembly has set targets for waste management which require radical changes in the way we operate if we are to meet them."

However, Cllr Hall fails to take notice of the fact that the counter proposals made by Johnston Community Council, that the Lawrence Landfill Site should be accepted as the preferred site for the proposed recycling unit in the area, would enable the authority to meet those Assembly recycling targets.

Johnston Community Council's proposals would mean the unit would be place strategically and unobtrusively away from the village and surrounding area, so no other community in Pembrokeshire would have such a unit impacted upon it.

It appears that Pembrokeshire County Council's strategy has not been properly thought out. Its department of environment, for which Cllr Hall is the cabinet member, proposes through the JUDP that a waste recycling unit - camouflaged by the name of a waste reclamation employment park - should be in the middle of the village of Johnston opposite land with planning permission for 60 houses.

Is this a coherent planning strategy? And what does such a strategy do for the environment of the people of Johnston?

The villagers of Johnston are annoyed at the accusation that they are being 'nimby' in objecting to such a policy, because they have suggested an alternative which would not affect our neighbouring towns and villages.

The much-needed community facilities planned for Arnold's Yard , identified by the Menter Preseli exercise, funded and supported by the county council and the community council, have now been completely ignored.

Unlike Cllr Hall, the people of Johnston are not being nimby. In March 1999, he opposed a waste transfer station in his own ward, even bringing stuffed rats into the council chamber.

Then it was confirmed that such developments shouldn't take place within 200 metres of a habitable dwelling.

The proposed unit for Johnston will within 100 metres of houses, and next to the Silverdale Motel

Thus, the residents of Johnston ask Cllr Hall: "Why don't you respond for the people of Johnston in the way you responded for the people of your ward in 1999?'

Ken Rowlands, vice chairman, and Michael J Cole, treasurer/clerk Johnston Community Council