Keep the Green Belt petition (1 Viewer)

[Captain Dart]

To stop the Council allowing building on green belt, once its gone its gone!
Keep our Green Belt GREEN Coventry & Warwickshire | Campaigns by You

 

---

[Nick]

Councillors giving out incorrect information on the radio? Never.

 

[chiefdave]

Couple of things spring to mind.

If they've been instructed to use the figures supplied by the ONS then surely they can't just ignore them because they think they are wrong.

With the current governments planning policy if they exclude green belt from the local doesn't that just make it a free for all for the developers. They'd be able to apply to build on any green belt land and would be certain to get planning permission on appeal if CCC refused it.

 

[Captain Dart]

Couple of things spring to mind.

If they've been instructed to use the figures supplied by the ONS then surely they can't just ignore them because they think they are wrong.

With the current governments planning policy if they exclude green belt from the local doesn't that just make it a free for all for the developers. They'd be able to apply to build on any green belt land and would be certain to get planning permission on appeal if CCC refused it.

It will be a free for all when this appalling plan passes, in 20 years half that land will be built on. I just wanted to register my dissatisfaction, that's all we can do.

 

[Captain Dart]

Comprehensive summary of the damage to our enviromnent.
Live: D-Day for green belt homes plan as council prepare to vote

All for private profit or shoring up CCC coffers.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Have to admit, I'd rather they headed for the brownfield sites first.

 

[Captain Dart]

Have to admit, I'd rather they headed for the brownfield sites first.

They say they will, but as that is not mandatory I don't believe them.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Sorry mate I’m going for blackbelt

 

[Kingokings204]

Yes it looks pretty bad news and as they said once the green belt has gone it has gone. It seems a bit overboard,

is the housing crisis that bad?

 

[clint van damme]

given how spectacularly the government has already missed it's house building targets I wouldn't worry too much!
In all seriousness, surely all brown field options should be exhausted before even thinking about using green belt.

 

[Captain Dart]

Yes it looks pretty bad news and as they said once the green belt has gone it has gone. It seems a bit overboard,

is the housing crisis that bad?

No, even the Labour councillors admit the figures they use assume all the students that are in Coventry stay and that is a flawed (ie completely incorrect) assumption, sure some will stay but its a few percent, meanwhile student housing is certainly being addressed, there are thousands of apartments currently under construction or recently completed!

 

[chiefdave]

No, even the Labour councillors admit the figures they use assume all the students that are in Coventry stay and that is a flawed (ie completely incorrect) assumption, sure some will stay but its a few percent, meanwhile student housing is certainly being addressed, there are thousands of apartments currently under construction or recently completed!

The problem is those are the figures supplied by the ONS so they can't be ignored. If they did ignore them the local plan wouldn't get approval from central government. No local plan would mean developers could apply to build anywhere, including green belt, and approval would be likely.

Following the meeting yesterday was laughable. Its a Conservative government policy being pushed onto local councils yet the local Conservatives were blaming it on Labour claiming they wouldn't allow development on green belt despite the fact their version of the local plan had 20% more green belt land marked for development!

What really needs to happen is central government need to put policies in place to stop developers sitting on banks of land and to force through brown field site development, even if it means councils building on it themselves.

But at the end of the day you can't have an expanding ageing population and not build more houses.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

even if it means councils building on it themselves.

Steady on now!

 

[Covstu]

Totally back this, the countryside is being eroded at a great rate. Even over the last two years the towns and hamlets around Coventry are being joined together but there is no considerations for local amenities, shops, schools which are having a knock on effect. You can’t build a 300 unit site and not consider the impact it has to the local community and schools, roads etc. The strategy needs a rethink before tendering work out in a desperate need to fill this void!

Build upwards not outwards!