Planning Minister Nick Boles was branded a liar and a fool
by countryside campaigners as he renewed calls to build homes on greenfield land.
Members of the Campaign to Protect Rural England repeatedly
heckled Mr Boles and walked out as he told them those who resist house building
will condemn rural villages to being ‘museum exhibits’. The minister claimed quiet villages ‘need
some noise’ in the form of younger people or they will ‘become fossilised’ or
‘embalmed’. The group’s annual meeting turned ugly when Mr Boles rejected CPRE
members’ claims that developers are to blame for the housing crisis by refusing
to build on 400,000 plots that have planning permission. But the minister
insisted it was the failure to release enough land in the countryside for
development which was the problem.
Several CPRE members repeatedly yelled ‘it’s not true’ and two stormed
out of the meeting in central London ,
accusing Mr Boles of failing to listen to their objections. Read more on the
Daily Mail website.
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