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To: Rt Hon Eric Pickles
Stop building on green field sites while brown fields are left unused.
Dear Mr Pickles
Please call a halt to all further development of green field sites until 1) all brown filed site have been used, and
2) properties standing empty (including vacant shops and industrial units) have been brought into use for affordable/social housing.
Why is this important?
Our countryside is under threat from developers who are pushing for green field housing development because it is easier and more profitable than utilising brown field sites. Many rural sites that have been earmarked for development offer no local work, no local school places, no GP surgery places and the housing planned is more "market housing" i.e. 3&4 bedroom with garden and garage. Many rural communities need just a few 1 & 2 bedroom homes as starter homes or for downsizing. We already have plenty of market homes available for purchase and there is no need for more. New housing should be concentrated in towns where there is work and there are shops and scope to expand schools and GP practices etc.
Our countryside is our heritage and needs to be protected at all costs so our children and grandchildren can enjoy it as we do.
