Save our green fields

LIKE reader Kate Manning in Kent (Letters), I live in a beautiful part of the countryside where the Green Belt is being gobbled up by housing.

It’s entirely unnecessary because we have been informed there are more than 90 brown-field local sites suitable for housing in my area.

even so, hundreds of homes are to be built on a council- owned golf course — what greed!

Locals petitioned to save the fields, but the council, with an eye on how much extra council tax they will be able to collect, ignored the fact local amenities are already stretched and overlooked traffic problems.

Yes, we need more houses, but not at the loss of our countryside. Mrs SIMONE CLEGG, Huddersfield, W. Yorks.

IT’S a nice idea to ask the Queen and aristocrats to give up a corner of their estates for housing (Letters), but who do we think will build on it? It will be developers of expensive houses, not social housing.

thousands of luxury homes are being built in essex despite the fact there is no infrastructure to support them. the issue is not a housing shortage, but the huge deposits required that make it impossible for first-time buyers to get a home.

I was born and brought up in a council property and was a housing association tenant before I saved enough for a deposit to buy a home of my own in the nineties.

today, it appears that profit comes before people. I will probably have to sell my home to pay for health care in my old age. M. SIMEONE, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex.