8,590 MORE houses for Malvern - the planners must be joking.

The 8,590 houses would have to be powered, heated, watered, sewered, infrastructured and fed.

Electricity supplies are on a knife edge; water supplies are under threat of pollution and/or shortage; sewers cannot cope when extreme weather occurs; gas and coal heating release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; flooding can result from over building; 60% of food is imported and as world populations increase, nations will need more food for themselves; infrastructu4re (roads, drives, car parks, rooves etc) can cause flooding and also reduce water soaking into aquafors.

This 8,590 homes is up to 2030. What happens beyond?

Compulsory purchase of second homes (CPOs) might be a solution for indigenous young people buying their first home in their own local area.

DENNIS C NIGHTINGALE-SMITH Hanley Swan