Having just read the article about homeless children in Winchester, which I find very sad, I do now understand why the city council chose not to build new homes on the Friarsgate site. 

Isn't there a link here? Once more, we all need to stress the need for homes, not shops or businesses or open spaces, but homes. 

Please, a roof over the heads of those without and now!

Tony Gaster,
Old Kennels Lane,
Oliver's Battery,
Winchester

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