Regarding the story Shapps calls for end to “Legoland” homes, (9 March, www.building.co.uk) it is the planners who are failing in their duty to ensure appropriate local design.

Where I live in Cumbria it is full of cheap and inappropriate market-led infill development blighting the local vernacular architecture. Local parish councils and planning departments do not seem to listen or care.

David Dunne, via www.building.co.uk

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