Too large population to blame

No sensible person would dispute the fact that house prices are determined by market forces; that is, if there are too many potential buyers in relation to property available, prices go up.

Likewise, the opposite situation would cause a reduction in prices.

As there is a finite land area for the UK of about 90,000 sq miles, as the population increases, house prices in the long run will never go down but always increase.

Therefore the answer is to stabilise the population. Why, then, are we still allowing more people to come to the UK than are leaving?

Therein lies the answer to this major problem facing these islands.

Once you build on green belt it is gone forever, never to return. You cannot keep putting people before the environment.

By refusing to face the problem of human population growth (which is a world wide problem) a calamitous situation awaits us all.

Roger Sharples, Clungunford