No to more houses

MY district council is completing a 12-week consultation on housing plans for 2025 to 2035.

You might expect most people to be ambivalent about something happening in so many years’ time. But when i posted an objection to plans to destroy swathes of the Green Belt, i received 800 signatures in i support within 36 hours.

We haven’t the roads, schools, hospitals h or doctors to accommodate d a mass building programme.

People are angry that their towns and a villages are under siege by developers and planners who have only short-term objectives. LINDA KENDALL, Rayleigh, Essex. AFTER serving on my local planning committee for five years, i resigned at the Government’s interference in the planning process.

Affordable homes are sold only to housing h associations and not to the public, p who have to pay the full market value. And what happens to the tax on the sale of building land? TERRY SNOW, Cullompton, Devon. NEW houses on previously green fields stretch for miles from one town t to another in Lancashire, changing the face of all the villages in between.

Greedy developers are converting bungalows into large, multi- storey houses for a quick profit, leaving the elderly with no option to downsize. B. J. SIMPSON, Preston, Lancs. THE water shortages should focus attention on the projected 300,000 new n homes to be built every year.

Planning consents should make it mandatory that all new-builds have rain water collection and recycling facilities. this would add slightly to the t building costs, but the long-term savings s for households, and the water suppliers, is ecologically and economically a no-brainer. E. M. GREEN, Fareham, Hants.