SIR — The earmarking of sites to build 2,500 new homes in West Somerset (Free Press October 21) deeply saddens me and I question the values of people who uphold this policy and believe it is time to kickstart change.

Ignore money and economic growth completely - it bluffs and confuses - and let's talk about a better life.

It will be when we halt population growth and developers only upgrade what housing we already have. 

Then Britain as a place will be virtually unchanged forever thanks to common sense, and life far nicer with few disputes over housing, industrial estates, airports, reservoirs, roads or green fields as we herald a policy that makes good sense. 

We all know there are enough problems with the current population so why do we need more people? We must respect the planet, not money, to survive. Britain will never be peaceful upholding the current policy.

2,500 homes will not improve West Somerset or solve anything - within years history will boringly repeat itself as more homes and industrial estates are proposed, it's so predictable.

I think of Bridgwater, and in the name of sanity and respect for the West Somerset environment, that must not happen here.

If we want a homeland worth living in we must immediately halt population growth and change policy completely.

If not, the night sky over the whole of Britain is going to be an illuminated fireball and evolving beneath it a concrete hostile mess, with the same old disputes and arguments repeated over and over and Britain completely detached from the priceless values and fulfilment that nature and unspoilt countryside have offered.

A single analogy - many wind farms built to generate more energy for Britain but there would be no extra energy per individual as the population has increased - how clever are we.

G Bull,

Four Acre Mead,

Bishops Lydeard.