I was not surprised to read of the resistance of the Home Builders Federation to building more accessible homes (Housebuilders face backlash for lobbying against disability access, 29 November). Next door to my home is an attractive, if dated, bungalow that my elderly neighbour was able to remain in until his death at the age of 99, despite suffering two strokes. It has now been bought by a developer, which, despite objections by many of us in the area, has gained planning permission to knock it down and squeeze two narrow two-storey detached houses on to the plot. We already have plenty of new-builds in our village that aren’t being sold. Bungalows, meanwhile, are like gold dust. Sadly, the focus for developers and, depressingly, councils, is not on providing homes local people need, but on maximising the profit to be made out of any tiny plot of land.
Jill Wallis
Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire
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