WE HAVE yet another orchestrated campaign from former house-builders and architects who still blame everyone else for the present demise of home construction. Demand is there but finance for eye-watering building costs is not.

When house-building does return at reduced affordable levels, will the tradesmen involved be able to actually afford any of the dwellings they are constructing? Builders may well congratulate themselves on being freed from some shackles, but I should remind them that they should still have a strong element of social justice and endeavour to increase housing stock at affordable levels and volumes.

The building industry is not the only one subject to highs and lows, but is a relatively low-technology one and is capable of quick response, even if cost of construction is handicapped by planning control, specification improvements and speculation in land values.

Philip Crowder, York Road, Haxby, York.