WITH reference to your letter (Echo, January 23) by C Cooper, of Viking Way, Bournemouth, we would like to echo your question of what has happened to council houses?

We are a company who are able and willing to fund council houses/social housing with tranches of £20million plus.

As yet neither Poole Borough Council nor Bournemouth Borough Council have taken up on our offer.

As a result we have offered our services elsewhere with immediate results.

The local authorities have a duty to provide housing, and they are failing the local people in need.

JOHN DAVIS AND NICK CROSS, Directors, Avalon Southern Investment Ltd