From Pauline MacLaughlin:-IN response to Kevin Adams' letter about shopping malls and rich developers (Mailbox, October 29), it seems to me that the developers win hands down in deciding to build houses galore and take over all the spare land, including green belt land.

The national law needs to be changed on compulsory provision of land for houses.

Many of the councillors are so much against building simply to make builders rich, as we residents are. But in the end even if permission is refused, the council cannot afford to set up a case should the builders go to court to appeal. The builders can afford the best lawyers and are all ready to persist.

We have actually got our priorities wrong. We should be first of all looking at how to provide the space for people to live in a healthy environment, then see what housing is really needed around it.

Some of the estates in Wirral are worse than those built during the Industrial Revolution because there is nowhere nearby for youngsters to safely play.

Blundells Drive,

Moreton, Wirral

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