With the HRA borrowing cap lifted, government has to stop
“heaping pressure” on councils to deliver unrealistic housing targets that
erode Green Belt land, the CPRE has said. CPRE planning campaigner Rebecca
Pullinger says analysis of new MHCLG stats shows that for too long
housebuilders have been able to use land as a tool to “manipulate and
monopolise the market only to serve their own interests”. “Instead, developers
should be held more accountable to deliver the homes that they have promised,”
Pullinger says. The MHCLG says its stats show the Green Belt is 24,500 hectares
bigger than it was in 1997 – taking into account land reclassified as a
national park. Read more on 24housing.
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