House whine

IT’S ALL well and good for the Government to tell us we need more housing, but in my area they are building the wrong type of houses — detached four and five-bedroom ones, priced between £400,000 and £500,000, and nothing for younger people starting off in life or older people wanting to downsize.

Why can’t we have the type of system they have in the Channel Islands where a certain percentage of homes are available only to the local community and can’t be sold on the open market? It’s also time that we had another wave of new towns to follow Telford and Milton Keynes.

ROLAND GRIFFITHS,

Nantwich, Cheshire.

THE Government is blaming home owners of nimbyism in resisting planning applications and intends to speed up the rate at which our countryside can be concreted over.

What happened to the ‘conserve’ in Conservative? Affordability is one issue, but there is a direct connection between the size of the population and the need to house it.

The building site that was Didcot and its surrounding villages is now gridlocked at peak hours.

The Government’s attempts to persuade us of the need to build more houses is mainly driven by the fact that it is ‘good for our economy’ and provides employment, but at some stage we have to get off the escalator.

NICK FELTGOOD, Didcot, Oxon.