Sunday 16 July 2006 We examined garden grabbing - the newest way to make money from your property ... A practice whereby builders can exploit planning loopholes to pull down family homes, so that they can replace them with flats.

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In the South East and in particular Kent, why with all the proposed building developments being announced and every piece of land available being used for housing are Kent County council intent on closing schools, especially small rural schools. They are trying to close a small successful school in Platts Heath to merge with another school that has high number of surplus places, yet I have read in the paper they have proposed new development sites where the second school is sited which will solve their surplus problem. I feel they are after the land that our school is sited for development of new houses, at the expense of our children's education. Angie McElvanney

For those young people who cannot afford to buy the big homes with gardens, it is great to have more flats being built to accommodate the dramatic shortage of properties anywhere within commuting distance of London. Adios gardens, hello young families being able to afford a place to live. Alex

I am neighbour of lady you're interviewing. She is right and all our gardens are covered by Covenant saying only one house per plot. The council has ignored this and abandoned us.

There are many empty run down properties about. Why not use these?

It's all about density where the solution to new homes lies

On a smaller scale how can I stop this in my Ward? Refused once, coming back. Vicki Dawson, Lydd Kent

We should not b developing any land in the SE, we are over populated and short of water. Pete Lancley

We don't need more houses built, people need to stop reproducing, there'll be no gardens or green belt left. A Banks, Eastbourne.

I live in Oxted and I sold my fathers house in Oxted to a builder for infilling-like many large houses in Oxted he could not keep it up and selling and the land were the viable option-people like Greg Clarke need to appreciate large houses are just not maintainable and splitting them into smaller units is actually better and more socially responsible Ian

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