SIR - Norrie Earl may speak for thousands of others in Craven (Can town cope with all these houses, Craven Herald Letters September 13) as she expresses her bewilderment and concern at the rate of housing development approvals in Skipton with the associated pressure on policing, social services, parking, hospitals, health centres, social services, education, green field/green belt encroachment and traffic congestion.

The reality is, that it is not just Skipton that is being subjected to increased housing development but most villages and towns of rural England are having to comply with increased housing development with green fields and green belt targeted. We can hardly blame the authorities and populace of our inner cities and industrial towns for suggesting that it is the turn of rural England to shoulder some of the burden of the national house-building programme for a change.

Is there no end to all of this spiralling housing development? No, is the simple answer as long as the population continues to increase at the current rate of which most is due to uncontrolled immigration which has been going on, non-stop, for well over two decades and still continues apace.

The Government, Mainstream Media (MSM) and opposition parties have all concluded that we have a housing crisis and the only solution is nationwide industrial scale housing development. In reality, what we have is not a housing crisis but an immigration crisis which is causing a housing shortage. But in typical collective government fashion they find it more agreeable to embark on treating the symptoms rather than seeking a cure.

A clean Brexit would halt freedom of movement from Europe but not from the rest of the world and so those who do seek a cure to this issue will have to be radical and begin to support those politicians and political parties who are committed to putting a halt to mass immigration and reject, via the ballot box, those that aren't. For this to be effective those inhabiting the Westminster bubble must fear the wrath and determination of the electorate more than the enormously powerful, well organised and well funded pro-immigration lobby.

A J A Smith

Cowling