WE ARE remembering the sacrifices of those who served in two world wars as well as those fighting for their country in recent times.
A hundred years ago the War Office said: “You cannot expect an A1 population out of C3 homes.”
The result was the Addington Act, buying land and setting up council estates.
House building became a local government priority.
In 2014 a soldier returning to UK willing to pay for the bricks and mortar and labour to build a home for his family finds he has to pay someone for the bit of the land it sits on as well, the land he fought for but does not own.
Is that fair? On his behalf, I feel justified in asking the question, having been five years in the army and taken part in two seaborne landings.
ALAN LAURIE
Burrington
Ludlow
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