SIR – On Friday, April 30, I watched an astounding item on BBC 1 News about thousands of new houses just outside Dublin on a beautiful greenfield site that have remained unsold and empty for years since the day they were built.

Now it’s proposed to demolish the lot.

My two questions are: l As we are all in the EU with open borders with freedom of movement, why can’t these houses be utilised by immigrants supposedly desperate for houses in the UK to reduce the thousands of new houses our government decrees must be built on England’s dwindling green and pleasant land?

l The houses have remained unoccupied and undamaged. But in overcrowded Britain you only have to walk down the path to put rubbish in the bin and by the time it takes to re-enter your home the locks have been changed and some family has taken up residence, using your possessions and utilities, quoting the law on vacant property.

Either there are no squatters in Ireland or they are evicted on the spot.

J Freeman
Worcester