{"id":95495,"date":"2018-08-06T17:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/if-we-value-rural-britain-we-cant-build-houses-all-over-it-simon-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T18:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T11:03:16","slug":"if-we-value-rural-britain-we-cant-build-houses-all-over-it-simon-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/if-we-value-rural-britain-we-cant-build-houses-all-over-it-simon-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"If we value rural Britain, we can\u2019t build houses all over it | Simon Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe countryside should not be up for speculative land grab \u2013 we need clear rules about which areas are open for developmentGovernment housing policy has lost all contact with planning Britain\u2019s countryside. This week the Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) is up in arms over house-building in green belts, and over the lack of what it calls affordable housing. These are a distraction. It is planning as such that has collapsed.The CPRE is concerned that 8,000 houses were built last year on green-belt land, or 24,000 over the past decade, and that hardly any were affordable. This has predictably raised a green light over all green belts, with developers rushing forward with applications for 460,000 new homes now in process. Already, unplanned and sprawling \u201ctoy-town\u201d estates are spreading across the home counties, the Fens, the Somerset Levels and the Severn Valley. It has sucked development into the south-east of England, denuded town centres and put ever more pressure on transport corridors. It is the worst sort of \u201cnon-planning\u201d. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The countryside should not be up for speculative land grab \u2013 we need clear rules...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-oQf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81770,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loophole-used-to-cut-affordable-housing-in-rural-england-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":95495,"position":0},"title":"Loophole used to cut affordable housing in rural England \u2013 report","date":"March 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Government urged to tighten planning laws that are currently being exploited by developersDevelopers are managing to dodge building tens of thousands of affordable homes in rural areas where they are most needed because of a legal loophole in planning laws, according to research by the homeless charity Shelter and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":736,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/housing-masterplan-needs-a-rethink-letters-from-shaun-spiers-cpre-and-others\/","url_meta":{"origin":95495,"position":1},"title":"Housing masterplan needs a rethink | Letters from Shaun Spiers, CPRE, and others","date":"January 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The government\u2019s commitment, in the prime minister\u2019s words, to \u201croll its sleeves up and directly get homes built\u201d is very welcome (New housing plans signal policy shift by ministers, 4 January). 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