You recently discovered that there are plans to build a new airport in your area and you are not happy with it. Write a letter to the local authority. In your letter, Say how you found out about the plans Explain what problems your neighbourhood will face Suggest some possible solutions to those problems.

Dear Sir or Madam, I would like to bring to your attention a few
problem
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with your plan to build a new
airport
in our
neighbourhood
, Hillview Residency. I recently learnt about the
intend
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and was apprehensive
on
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the effect
if
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it
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might have on the quality of air and the possible surge in traffic. With
this
letter, I hope to outline the problems and suggest an alternative location where you can consider building the
airport
.
While
poring through the news the other day , it came to my knowledge that the local authority
are
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keen to build a new
airport
in our
neighbourhood
to attract more
tourist
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and labour
opportinities
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opportunities
for the
local
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. I greatly admire the attempt to improve our quality of life but
forsee
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a few challenges with the plan. The location where the
airport
is to be built is a dense forest of a few acres. To deforest the area will be wasteful as it took many years of
collective
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effort by our
neighbourhood
to preserve the forest.
Further
replacing the forest with an
airport
will result in
emission
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of combustible fuels
thus
drastically reducing the quality of
air
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we breathe. There is a vast area of land located 10
kms
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km
away from our
neighbourhood
in the west towards Greenville suburbs. I believe that that will be an ideal location for
this
venture. It is
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open land and
hence
you will not need to cut down any trees.
Furthermore
, being located away from the city , you can direct traffic away from the city and towards a
sparesly
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sparsely
populated suburb. I hope you will be in agreement with the issues and solutions I have outlined. Yours faithfully, Megan Lee
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Word Count

IELTS says that you should write a minimum of 150 words in writing task 1. If you go under word count you will lose marks in task response.

A very long letter will not give you a higher band score.

Aim for between 160 to 190 words in writing task 1. This will ensure a concise letter and will be realistic in terms of time management. You have only 20 minutes to write the letter and you need around 5 minutes of planning time, so you will not be able to write a long letter in 15 minutes.

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