IN YOUR latest New Homes and Lettings guide, only five pages were devoted to new homes. There were only two adverts for sites in the City of York Council area and one was Hungate, started before the recession.

York is in crisis, it’s a house-builder’s graveyard, and new development is dead as a dodo.

Meanwhile, all our neighbouring local authorities have new sites coming forward and starting.

This is all further evidence that City of York Council’s affordable housing policy is to blame.

When will the council admit it has got it wrong and what does it intend to to do to put things right?

Paul S Cordock, Durlston Drive, Strensall.