I READ with interest your article about the 120,000 new homes to be built for people expected to move into this area over the next 20 years. Housing which one would expect to be occupied for at least 50-100 years.

However it seems only a short time ago you published a similar article which anticipated large areas of our coast all around the UK, but Portsmouth in particular would be soon permanently flooded by global warming.

Can you write another article explaining why it is sensible to build so many homes near the coast when the government has said it does not intend to improve sea defences or explain how we are to be trained to live in a new Atlantis?

S BILLINGS, Winchester.