If we did that,Tsai Chi - bulldoze 60 per cent of the housing stock and replace it with gardens, I mean - there wouldn't be enough room for the close on 200 thousand immigrants expected next year. We might even be reduced to sending them all back to where they came from. THEN we'd be for it with the bash-Britain brigade.

Eileen O' Conor, Cordoba, Spain

I want to make a point, there is a known act outlawed called "carpetbagging" for all people not aware of this , people opening up accounts with a building society on so called "hearsay" more like insider trading ! that a demutulisation will happen , opening a bank account with minimum funds for example £100 made you eligible for a dividend payment this was made illegal to do. However someone somewhere is letting information out and pinstripe money sharks are getting wind of these so called "Terrace locations" Investors buy on so called "hearsay" then low and behold the goverment give them thousands to buy it off them? sound familiar? so this is my advice for a money wasting goverment , keep the terrace houses , rennovate them , create communities again as these terraces are a far better build then some houses we have today, make them affordable, this will not happen as long as back handers continue on the back benches! .. for the record i am an investor,an investor in people not profit

Leon Jones , leeds, uk

Given that this Government wastes in the region of as much as £82 Billion a year, this waste is quite reasonable by their standards.

Judy , Liverpool, england

Another example of this governments failure to keep control of the purse strings. Is there nothing they can do without getting it completely wrong?

d case, newquay,

It is just too daft to laugh at! But that is a Labour Govrnment in action for you.

Davidka East Yorkshire

W D Toulman, Walkington, United Kingdom

The sort of stuff Knighthoods are made of......Sir John Prescott..you must admit it has a ring to it...........pity it wasn;t a noose!

mike, oxford, england

This is appalling. What a waste of tax payers money.
A disgrace for those displaced from their cherished homes and paid low values as in previous clearances.

Everyone has a right to a good quality home at a fair price. The UK's system allows profiteering and this damages the whole economy. High house prices are a curse not a benefit.

Edina, Manchester, UK

Agree with Tsai Chi - most of the old housing in the UK is dreadful but please get continental builders and design firms to replace it. See Nottingham or Margate if you want to see horror replacement schemes. PS. Why not arrest Prescott for stupidity and or when he is knighted call him Sir Fool of the North.

Frederick, London, UK

Since when has Victorian been the ultimate in housing? Britain's antiquated buildings are not all that wonderful. It takes an extraordinary lack of imagination to be attached to the dreary and grimy past. Unfortunately, blind modernising is no panacea either. The housing estates being pushed lately by styleless and quite surely corrupt planning permissionaries all too often leave little space for breathing and condemn yet another generation to bad taste and suffocating soulless proximity. If it was me I would bulldoze 66% of the housing stock and replace it with garden. Yes - leave only every third house standing! Mind you, while we are at it, one might as well bulldoze the council offices as well; they tend to keep the best land to themselves.

Tsai Chi, Cambridge,