A new housing boom could be on the way - with a
relaxation of planning laws prompting a surge in the number of large housing
estates being forced through by developers, a study claims. England’s local authorities approved 195,000 planning
applications over the past year, which is a 9 per cent rise on the average
before legal changes came in promoting sustainable development. The figures
come as a Conservative peer said hundreds of thousands of homes must be built
on 800 square miles of British countryside where there are ‘big, open, flat
fields of no agricultural merit’. Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise said the Government must
allow construction on greenfield areas - and added that he does not believe the
country is already over-developed. Read
more on the Daily Mail website.
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