Date published: 2007/08/30
The BBC says:
Government plans to build three million new homes by 2020 will create an "unsustainable urban sprawl", the Tories have warned.
Shadow planning minister Jacqui Lait said promises not to construct houses on green land were now "worthless".
The claim comes as a panel recommends the building of 32,000 new homes a year in south-east England.
But the government promised the green belt would continue to have "robust protections" from future developments.
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Shadow planning minister Jacqui Lait said: "Gordon Brown's empty promise that he would protect the green belt has been exposed to be worthless."His own government officials are planning to let rip with the concrete mixer and add to unsustainable urban sprawl."
She added: "Local residents will be powerless to stop the unelected bureaucrats building the sink estates of the 21st century."
The Tories evidently think that the peasants should be forced to live in high density urban slums squeezed onto post-industrial waste land. This is more likely to result in the "sink estates of the 21st century" than building the low density suburban housing that most people in Britain want to live in. Pretty bland projections imply there should be at least three million new homes built by 2020 in the south of England. If the Tories believe otherwise they should put forward a sensible analysis providing an alternative view.
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