IT IS about time planners gave landowners permission to build flamboyant houses, instead of row after row of poor quality homes which bring the area down.
It’s fine to build this kind of property on council land which is set aside for affordable housing to give people a first home, but it seems private developers are not interested in giving people what they want.
N Tate, Harrowgate Village, Darlington.
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