YOU quote Peter Luff MP as responding to communities’ impotence about housing, saying (Letters, July 17): “I condemn the opportunism of developers who have wickedly exploited the current position in Wychavon etc”.
They are not wicked. They are doing what an un-fettered market does best – cherry-picking fast bucks.
MPs have given the “blue” light allowing developers to roll out poorly regulated housing stock. They created this structure, thinking perhaps of instant growth that could help their image at the 2015 hustings.
MPs are elected to represent us. They could sort developers out for us.
Without sensible control and long-term planning, we have the pythonesque scenario of government giving councils money to improve the sustainability of their ailing, old housing stock, whilst they allow developers rampant code 3 housing, ripe for later improvement.
You only have to study the code 6 sustainable housing built by Rooftop Housing at Blakes Hill, North Littleton, to see what’s missing and realise the duff housing Westminster is creating for our future energy-challenged descendants.
Michael T Parker
Sedgeberrow
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