Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Local Infrastructure (East Midlands) - Mar 20

Toby Perkins (Chesterfield) (Lab):...The hon. Gentleman focused on the need to achieve more house-building starts. I entirely concur. Chesterfield has had huge success in attracting new sites for house building, and I am proud to have seen many new house-building starts there over the past few years. The old football ground is now a housing estate, imaginatively called Spire Heights; fortunately the Spireites have a good new ground. The old rugby ground, where I used to run up and down, is now a housing estate called Rugby Drive; we have a very good rugby ground to replace it. The GKN cricket ground is also becoming a new housing estate...

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