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• The reasons for the housing crisis go beyond the green belt | Letters

  08-01-2024 18:14
  Readers respond to the building design tsar’s comments on housebuilding In arguing for more building on land within green belts, Nicholas Boys Smith seems not to appreciate their actual purpose (England’s green belt can’t stay entirely untouched for ever, building design tsar says, 2 January). He fails to recognise that green belts are there to prevent most new development as a matter of principle, irrespective of its design quality.Green belts were not established to protect a
  
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• I hadn’t skied for 10 years. Could a trip to the French Alps reignite my enthusiasm?

  08-01-2024 01:00
  As well as a good selection of gentle pistes, the modernist resort of Flaine offers an education in architecture, art and sustainabilityWhen it comes to organising ski trips, finding the “happy intermediate” level can be tricky. Friends will say things like, “It’s fine, I’ll ski blues”, then lead you down a steep red, leaving you broken and weeping before elevenses.I’ll sometimes push myself down tough slopes, but I’m just as happy cruising serpent
  
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