I DESPAIR after reading that the Hilton Hotel Ageas Bowl has been completed at a cost of £27m and that the Eastleigh Borough Council buildings cost millions but did not include council chambers.

The old council building will be flats and council meetings are temporarily going to be held in the old magistrates court.

After completions of projects – housing on Stoneham Lane, Woodside Avenue, Travis Perkins, Draper Tools plus other sites we will have more gridlock on our roads.

Only a small proportion of these houses are affordable housing or rents.

Others are highly priced giving more money to our council in council tax.

FIONA MAPLESON, Chandler’s Ford.