WAYNE HARRIS, executive director of homes and assets from Sedgefield Borough Housing, you are missing the point (Echo, Dec 29).

If I suffer a fire in my kitchen, I have no way of getting out via my living/dining room.

When my kitchen floor was levelled so tiles could be laid, I had to pick up my grandson from school. We had to stand in the hall for four hours as I could not access my living room or kitchen.

Elaine Lowther, West Cornforth.