How terrible that the Talbot Village Trust development has been approved, despite passionate objections.

We are as a society going to need every bit of growing space we can access for our own farms, nut trees, herbal medicines, fruit and veg.

We are a sandcastle civilisation, dependent on cheap oil.

Jeremy Paxman on the BBC’s Newsnight programme on June 9 highlighted the increased concerns over depleting oil reserves.

World demand is growing and oil is becoming riskier (as evidenced in the Gulf of Mexico) and more expensive to extract.

Resource constraints and an ability to adapt are becoming increasingly relevant.

Susan Chapman, Parkwood Road, Southbourne