Government Urged To Prioritise Brownfield Housing Development

A government serious about tackling the housing crisis must prioritise building on brownfield land, the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) has said. ACE also makes a case for stabilising in social housing policy by ensuring a flat 15% provision in any development. Releasing a wide-ranging election manifesto – Infrastructure for everyone – ACE references the government’s own figures as showing a recent drop in brownfield development, with 56% of developments on previously developed land, down from 61% in 2016. The Campaign to Protect Rural England has previously estimated that more than one million homes could be built on brownfield sites. Download the report from the ACE website.

https://www.acenet.co.uk/media/4422/ace-manifesto-2019.pdf