SIR - The plan for the future of St Mary's Catholic School has been made public (T&A, October 25).

The process of amalgamating it with St Peter's School, emptying it, and submitting plans to Bradford Council has been very rapid; far more rapid than the implementation of a plan to dispose of the premises of the Catholic parishes in Girlington, Allerton and Thornton in order to build one new church to house the three congregations.

The monthly newspaper of the Diocese appears not to have given publicity to either project.

The T&A is to be congratulated, and maybe the Diocese's own information sources will remedy the oversight.

I welcome the plan to create more apartments, but what kind, and for whom? Private developers always seem to create only "luxury" apartments at high prices, whether buying or renting.

The article by Leeds West MP John Battle in the last issue of the Diocesan newspaper, entitled "The right to an affordable home" might be of value to financial decision-makers in the Diocese.

Will St Mary's be sold to the highest bidder or to a Housing Association, or Bradford Housing Trust, for social housing at affordable rents? In my view, both projects should be considered by a wider church membership. That's where the money to build the school came from.

Mr A E Harris, Ormonde Drive, Allerton