ONCE again you have printed letters from local residents who object to houses being built in their neighbourhood.

This time, Victoria Walter romanticises the natural environment of the B4209 with its beech hedges, bats, and little lambs.

She ignores the fact that there are many houses already there.

Peter Walter, in the next letter, complains that new houses will spoil the view from the hills for tourists.

As ever with Nimbys, they believe that their homes somehow have no effect on the environment, and it is all right for the houses they own to be in an area of outstanding natural beauty, whereas new housing will spoil it irrevocably.

Their houses are also somehow invisible from the hills.

The country needs many more houses, and both major political parties are committed to expanding the housing stock.

These houses have to be built somewhere. To expand an existing area of housing, such as in Hanley Road and the Moorlands, which are relatively new developments themselves, makes the best use of the existing transport and drainage infrastructure.

To provide a small housing development with a third being affordable or for social rent seems to me to be an excellent and manageable plan.

Pam Stanier

Malvern Wells

(and happy to share it)