Green space to submit to building plans

A green area of land in the West Midlands is to submit to building plans for over half a million new homes under proposals being put forward by the government.

In a bid to tackle the low supply of affordable housing in Britain, the government wants to build some 575,000 new homes across the twenty-three square mile area over a 25-year period.

This would include thousands of extra homes in and around the market towns of Rugby, Redditch, Worcester, Nuneaton, Stafford and Solihull.

Local councils are being asked to approve the plans after a two-month consultation period into the regional spatial strategy which begins this week.

But there are already some concerns about the plans, which would see over 14,600 acres of greenfield land at risk from housing development

Gerald Kells, a member of the West Midlands Regional Assembly, said: "This is not the way to provide homes in the West Midlands for those who really need them. It is a recipe for indiscriminate green field development, social polarisation and countryside destruction.

"We urge all those who care about the future of their areas to join us in opposing these cavalier and ill thought out proposals."


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