Hands Off Our Land: 45 Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs tell David Cameron to rethink planning reforms
David Cameron has been told by his own MPs to put the countryside ahead of the need to stimulate the economy, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Let us hope he listens
i agree totally. we need the countryside but too many people trying to buy it for the wrong reasons. ok, foxes and all!
Hands Off Our Land: Frustrated Osborne vows to make building on countryside easier as cracks show in Government
George Osborne yesterday pledged to push through planning rules that will make it easier to build in the countryside, despite reassurances by ministerial colleagues that the reforms will not be a "developer's charter".
Unless of course you happen own a large estate in Dorset .... then of course you can build a large mock tudor monstrosity with impunity
i love my bit of the countryside, but why don't other people respect it. sick of people just thinking they can do what they want and we have to clean up after them. a little thought should be used, then i wouldn't mind anyone roaming around.
School playing fields will be given special protection against being sold off for housing developments, after ministers agreed to water down their controversial planning reforms.
A new city could be built in the Midlands alongside the controversial High Speed 2 rail line as part of a drive to tackle the country’s housing shortage.
The transport project’s chief engineer said up to 100,000 homes could be built on green belt land.
This land is your land................
Depends what "countryside" means.
Farms, factories, all the same to me tbh.
Hands Off Our Land: campaigners hail a 'good day for anyone who cares about the countryside'
Campaigners have welcomed the Government’s decision to water down planning reforms that threatened unrestrained building across swathes of the English countryside.
Groups including the National Trust and the Campaign to Protect Rural England expressed relief that ministers had listened to their concerns after months of argument.
My point, and I apologise as I have made the point before, is that you dont define what you mean by countryside.
Quite. The definition of countryside is as woolly as ever. Nimbys masquerading as environmentalists I reckon.
Hands off whose land ? are the government planning to input compulsory purchase orders to build whatever it is they plan to build ? they do this a lot in the towns and cities so I just wondered if this is what this thread is about, or are they just planning to relax planning laws and utilise the land owned by ALL the taxpayers of the UK to make more room for our expanding population.
Has anyone living in the Countryside ever objected to the masses of building, compulsory purchase orders, land fill or anything else that happens in our urban areas, why if we need the land for other purposes should we not be allowed to use it, is there a law that says it is only for those in that area to dictate what is done with it, don't get me wrong I love the countryside and would love to keep it as it is, but needs as must and I am a realist, if we need it then we need it just as things are used in urban areas. Lately there are a few threads about those living in sparcely populated areas, well those living in urban areas have problems too, take fuel, it may cost more in rural areas but when it's in the tank you get to use it moving around not use it like urbanites do stuck in traffic jams for hours on end, slow crawling to and from work everyday, changing gear and stopping n starting every few minutes making consumption higher for like for like distance journeys. We have health hazards in pollution and germ transference abounding.
People in the countryside have the option to move to the urban areas, people in urban areas do not have the option to move to the countryside unless there are new planning laws as are being implemented now. Food for thought perhaps
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