MADAM, This crisis at The Chestnuts has been a fudge with balance sheets and 'policy' and 'government targets' taking the place of people. People! The people who contributed in the past society we enjoy. Now in their vulnerable old age they are cast aside, merely ciphers in the balance sheet of cost and value. It is wrong, shamefully so and for the parties in this fiasco to say they have done all they can is unacceptable.

The building that houses The Chestnuts will not stand still. Will it fall in to dereliction? I doubt it. Some investor will come along and see an opportunity for enrichment. Increasingly we see the frail and elderly targeted as a 'burden on society'.

The parties involved in this must not be allowed simply to walk away from the problem, hiding behind government policy, financial constraints, budgetary targets and other convenient justifications for shrugging their shoulders.

The community of The Chestnuts residents must be kept intact. The parties involved must accept that somewhere there is a solution and the eviction of the residents halted until they find it.

Brian Jackson, Ross