NEWS: CPRE Report October 14, 2019
Just 1 in 10 homes built on land released from the Green Belt are ‘affordable’
“Space to Breathe, A State of the Green Belt” report was published by CPRE on 14th October.
CPRE report that “Only 1 in 10 homes built on land released from the Green Belt over the past decade are ‘affordable’”
The reports says that “harmful development on the Green Belt, often in the guise of providing ‘affordable’ homes, is squandering this valuable asset at a time when it is needed for our own health and well-being, and to address the climate change crisis.”
Two further key findings of the report are that this trend looks set to continue in the future, with CPRE research showing that “there are proposals for a further 266,000 homes on undeveloped Green Belt land in advanced local plans, and only a third of these are likely to be classified as ‘affordable’ according to local policies” Additionally Green Belt development is “inefficient and land hungry, with the average density of homes within the Green Belt just 14 dwellings per hectare, compared to an average of 31 outside these designated green areas.”
Wasn’t building on Green Belt land only ever to be in “exceptional circumstances”. It seems however, to be becoming the norm for Local Authorities to do this?
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