House-building fails home-seekers like us

As a millennial, I do not share Allen Tullett’s view of the Mountfield Park development (Why I support Mountfield Park, Letters March 23).

I agree that owning a home in Canterbury is a distant dream for many people of my age but I don’t see how this massive development will help.

These properties will be unaffordable for most local people and will not provide me with a route onto the housing ladder.

Even the small percentage of so-called affordable housing (not planned for the first phase) will be nowhere near affordable for many younger people like me. I married last year and my husband and I are both public sector workers starting our careers coping with student debt, ever increasing train fares to work and high private sector rent.

Our only hope of moving is through shared ownership schemes, which are incredibly limited.

When brownfield land does become available (such as the Peugeot and Serco sites), it should be used for well designed, sustainable housing developments ideally suited for people to access the city by foot.

I do not accept Mr Tullett’s view that sustainability and air quality concerns are “utopian”. Sadly, city sites such as these which could be used for high-density housing with mixed ownership for local people, are instead being developed as