Ian Greenhalgh (“Making serfs out of us all”, Friday, July 18) wrote a extremely long letter about the government taking over all public land.

Just two brief points: 1. There was no intention to close the land registry office, benefiting the economy by £2.5billion. It had been lined up for privatisation, bringing in £1.2 billion, but this plan has now been abandoned.

2. In the Infrastructure HL2014-2015 Bill, I see no plan to transfer all public land to a private company, thus allowing “building on parks and children’s playgrounds”.

The summary of the Bill reads as follows: To make provision for strategic highways companies and the funding of transport services by land; to make provision for the control of invasive non-native species; to make provision about nationally significant infrastructure projects; to make provision about town and country planning; to make provision about the Homes and Communities Agency and Mayoral development corporations; to make provision about the Greater London Authority so far as it exercises functions for the purposes of housing and regeneration; to make provision about Her Majesty’s Land Registry and local land charges; to make provision for giving members of communities the right to buy stakes in local renewable electricity generation facilities; and for connected purposes.

W D Collier Bolton