Readers' Letters: 'We should ask questions about the loss of nature for housebuilding'

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The Sycamore Gap tree stood for centuries as a symbol of hope and the steadfastness of nature. Its senseless felling sparked outrage, rightly so. Yet, we are about to pass a bill that will allow developers to flatten land for building houses and infrastructure with scant regard for the impact on our natural world. If we can be so exercised by the felling of one tree, surely then we should be asking what happens when vast swathes of nature is concreted over. We need more housing, but we also need more imaginative and creative solutions to promoting nature and wildlife diversity. Not one at the expense of the other.

Tamsin Daniel, Harrogate

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