Should building detached homes be banned?

HOMES show presenter Kirstie Allsopp says in Weekend magazine that we should ban the building of detached houses because they take up too much space.

She was interviewed with co-star Phil Spencer, who lives in a

£3.3 million home with ten acres of land. She herself, besides owning a property in rural Devon, lives in what was once two London flats, so there is one home less on the market in an area of high demand. If she thinks gaps between houses are a bad thing, she should visit a new terrace house, where you can hear neighbours going to the loo. She further comments that she could no longer vote Tory, yet her son attends a private school. Labour hopes to wipe out private schools, but joined-up thinking and celebrities don’t go together. She is in danger of joining Lineker and Vorderman in annoying her fans. PS: I live in a terrace property in the town that officially has the cheapest housing in England.

eric craggS, Shildon, co Durham.

KIRSTIE ALLSOPP is wrong. Detached houses provide adequate privacy and are better for the environment because there is room to plant gardens that provide adequate soakaway, which is environmentally essential, and living green screens for privacy.

You live in the type of property you prefer, Kirstie, so leave other people to live as they please.

richarD JarviS, address supplied.

DOES Kirstie Allsopp really think the Tories have swung too far to the Right? Is she mad? They have swung to the Left, madam, which is why their policies are failing and we’ll soon have another rubbish Labour government. t. Sayer, Bristol.