Alister Scott, Professor of Environmental and Spatial
Planning from Birmingham City University, has claimed that a "one-sided
approach" to housebuilding means that potential sites are judged on the
financial profits they will reap for developers, rather than on their social or
environmental viability - which has led to a reduction of more expensive sites
on brownfields, putting more pressure on green belt plots. The professor
insists that the UK urgently needs to move away from a "fix on housing,
green belt or transport in separate silos", and build "communities
and places" rather than merely houses. Professor Scott was speaking in the
wake of housebuilder Persimmon's call for a review of the green belt to
potentially free up more land for development.
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