I AM writing to say that I am deeply concerned about plans to build massive new housing estates of 900 homes in the village of Moreton, between Dorchester and Wool, and 500 homes to the north of Littlemoor – the Weymouth ‘urban extension’.

It is horrendous that our precious greenfield sites could be sacrificed in this way (the Weymouth site is supposedly a protected area of outstanding natural beauty) and especially so in that these plans may well be the thin end of a very large wedge.

The root cause of Britain’s housing crisis surely must be the unlimited immigration which we are allowing from the European Union, which is creating a population explosion in this country. The 64 million people in the UK now are set to rise to 74 million in 2039.

I am all in favour of good relations with Europe and don’t hate foreigners or immigrants. Before I moved to Weymouth I spent 25 years in London and had pals from Spain, Jamaica, Pakistan, India, Japan and South America. I still like them a lot and I don’t wish to send them back to their countries of origin. I wish them happy lives in the UK.

However, giving a vastly increased number of people the right to live in this country means that our beautiful and precious English countryside will quickly become a massive building site. This is already happening all over the Home Counties and especially Oxfordshire where 100,000 new homes are planned mainly on greenfield sites between now and 2030.

What is even more worrying is that a lot more countries are lining up to join the European countries and take advantage of the free movement of peoples.

They include Ukraine 44 million, Turkey 74 million, Serbia seven million, Croatia four million, Macedonia two million, Belarus nine million, Moldova three million, Armenia three million and Georgia four million.

One day Russia will come out of its present nationalistic phase, elect a Liberal Democrat as president and join the EU. That’s another 142 million people with the right to live in the UK.

That’s an awful lot of people to fit into Moreton and Littlemoor.

Howard G Curtin

The Esplanade

Weymouth