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Evening Standard
08-05-2025
- General
- Evening Standard
Sadiq Khan: 'We must build on green belt to ease London's housing crisis'
In an open letter to Londoners ahead of that consultation, the London branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England has argued that 'building more homes, especially high-cost ones on green belt land, won't solve' the housing crisis. The group points out that around 300,000 homes in London 'have planning permission but haven't been built', which they say indicates that the planning system itself is not to blame.
BBC News
14-02-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
South Norfolk put forward as possible new town area
A council leader said he would prefer an entire new town was built, instead of large numbers of homes being added to existing Norfolk District Council's (SNDC) Conservative leader Daniel Elmer said the authority had told the government it may be prepared to consider a new town in the follows the government's pledge to begin work on new towns before the next general countryside group the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) said it did not want any new towns in Norfolk. Ministers have said they want 1.5m extra homes built in England by 2029, with new towns of at least 10,000 properties contributing towards that government said more than 100 locations had been suggested as potential sites and Elmer confirmed that, while it was "very early stages", SNDC had put its area forward as a potential he said the authority wanted guarantees that any new settlement would have adequate health, education and transport facilities. Under the existing Greater Norwich Local Plan, 45,000 homes are due to be built in areas including south Norfolk."A new town gives you the opportunity to get it right and not to impact people who are already living in existing settlements," said Elmer."That can be disruptive for local schooling, it affects the views people get out of their own homes, and often gives a sense that what they paid for isn't what they now have." 'We need our green lands' David Hook, from CPRE Norfolk, said the housing targets in existing plans were already "very high" and "we don't see the need for a new town at all"."We need our green lands, we need North Yorkshire, we need Lincolnshire, we need Norfolk and Suffolk. We need those places to be different from Milton Keynes," he added."I'm not putting down Milton Keynes – but we need them to be different from those kind of environments."It is expected that a government taskforce will identify specific locations for new towns by the summer, with a view to construction beginning by the time of the next election. Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
