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Why Do We Need To Build On Green Belt Land?
What is wrong with forcing development of Brownfield sites? Firstly of course if they reduced the rediculous cost of skips/disposal then that might help but failing that compulsary purchase unused properties and sell them on with a mandate to rebuild/renovate.
This would make far more sense than building on green belt often near villages that have no services like buses, schools, doctors etc and no infrastructure to cope with increased traffic and sewage.
And ban building on flood plains - they are there for a reason!
Rant over, no link its related to the Kings speech if you really dont know.
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No-one is suggesting building on AONB but some land designated as Greenbelt seems to have been so quite arbitrarily.
Re-using brownfield is certianly the way to go but the entire Planning System needs to be sorted out.
Creating 3 new flats out of 1 former guesthouse now means that the applicant will need to buy 9 trees (Biodiversity net gains, etc. legislation). And not just any tree, but ones that cost £ 1000 each.
//The cost of decontaminating brownfield sites can be prohibitive//
Yes but as a whole that doesnt apply. And if it did then compulsory purchase and offer assistance to the purchaser to decontam it rather than letting it sit there rotting and potentially leaching into the environment.
There will always be odd little things that make it no feasible but often there are ways to get round it. Lets sort out what we have before piling into the countryside.
Our wee town had a foundry and a tractor factory now we shave a Morrison's and a soulless sprawling tightly packed housing estate with one wee school and no shops or recreational facilities although both were promised but somebody 'slipped up.
New cars, extensions to councillors homes and trebles all round though.
Two doors away from me was the oldest meadow in our city.
We fought for eight years to stop development - the meadow is a flood plane and a wildlife spot, there are no available school or GP places near, and the bus stop for the dreadful local service is nearly half a mile away from the nearest plot.
Our -and the local council's - objections were over-ruled by a planning inspector who visited from London, did not visit the site, and ticked the application.
The government is in thrall to millionaire housebuilding companies, and the notion of suitability of sites, or the damage to local populations is simply ignored.
The 'relaxation' of planning rules will simply accelerate situations like this - the people are ignored, money talks.
I am happy with simplying the rules and getting more houses built.
I am not happy with ignoring local knowledge and building too many houses in unsuitable places.
The local councils want the council tax revenues on thousands of new properties, but are oblivious to lack of amenities and local roads not being able go cope with all the extra traffic.
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