Northern Ireland has rural bungalow blight but it has bad urban planning too

(The letter can be read here: ‘I don’t trust our politicians to halt blight of single dwellings across our landscape’, April 25).

The urban environment too is at risk.

I know a site where a detached house now has an indecent number of new dwellings crammed into the front and rear gardens.

This property would have made a marvellous facility for a family but it has now been lost forever.

I know another site where an island of mature trees isolated between two roads now has two houses with gardens built within it which must surely threaten the site’s long term viability for large trees and as a pocket for wildlife.

There are plenty of other examples of this locally.

In England when looking across acres of farmland and woodland (pictured Northumberland) there seems to be much less in the way of bungalow blight.

Whether this is down to the planning system or other reasons, it gives the impression that the environment there is valued more than here.

Thomas Stewart, Belfast BT4