BY now Wantage residents should have received the plans for the Wantage shopping site redevelopment.

Reading the preview of the plan, I couldn’t help but notice the emphasis on three-storey developments with flats above.

I hope Wantage Town Council is not pandering to the Government’s demands for high-density developments to meet its envisaged housing shortage crisis.

Britain leads the way in building the smallest-sized housing in Europe and the reality between the spacious London flat overlooking the Thames and the sort built in Wantage doesn’t bear too much scrutiny.

Let’s start demanding minimum square footage for one and two-bedroom flats to give young people and families room to live and breathe.

TERRY RANDALL

Grove Street

Wantage