Extract from end of day adjournment debate on Housing Developments: West Sussex - Sep 7
Tuesday, 8 September 2020 08:44
Andrew Griffith (Arundel and South Downs) (Con):...Secondly, we
should exhaust every single opportunity to prioritise building on
brownfield land. How can we teach our children to recycle plastic
bags from a supermarket and yet let an algorithm, mutant or
otherwise, dictate that we bulldoze by numbers through ancient
fields, hedgerows, water meadows and woodland while land capable of
reuse stands idle? Every local planning authority now has a
brownfield register, which in 2019 showed that...Request free trial
(Arundel
and South Downs) (Con):...Secondly, we should exhaust every single
opportunity to prioritise building on brownfield land. How can we
teach our children to recycle plastic bags from a supermarket and
yet let an algorithm, mutant or otherwise, dictate that we bulldoze
by numbers through ancient fields, hedgerows, water meadows and
woodland while land capable of reuse stands idle? Every local
planning authority now has a brownfield register, which in 2019
showed that there was enough suitable brownfield land to build more
than 1 million homes. I welcome the Government’s commitment to a
“brownfield first” policy, although we should give this teeth by
supporting the call from CPRE to require local
authorities to write these numbers into their plans as delivered
before considering any greenfield sites...
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