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SIR – Michael Gove’s decision not to make local authorities set aside protected land for housing is most welcome. The suggestion from the Home Builders Federation that this will lead to a “further decline” in planning permission approvals is disingenuous. As with many villages around the country, here in Ticehurst (and neighbouring Wadhurst) we have seen a massive increase in building over the past 10 years, without regard for the impact on services and infrastructure, or the major increases in

SIR – Germany is reluctant to provide the Leopard 2 tanks that the Ukrainians have been asking for.

SIR – I fear that the decline in the number of people in England and Wales espousing Christian belief, now less than 50 per cent (report, November 30), is largely self-inflicted.

SIR – Allister Heath is right to identify the NHS as a major problem for the Government (“The NHS is slowly suffocating British conservatism – and Sunak knows it”, Comment, October 26).

SIR – My brother’s funeral is to take place in Bristol on June 21, the first day of the rail strikes.