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Prescott set to allow more greenbelt homes
Guardian Unlimited - 15/07/2005
More greenfield sites look set be earmarked
for housing under controversial plans to be outlined next
week by the deputy prime minister, John Prescott.
Under the proposal, expected in a consultation paper, planning authorities
would be forced to release more land for housing in areas where house prices
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The idea was put forward last year by the economist Kate Barker
in her review of housing supply for the Treasury.
She said extra land should be released for new
homes in areas where house prices rise above agreed thresholds.
The idea has
alarmed planners and countryside campaigners, but the government
is believed to support it as a way of achieving a "step
change" in the number of new homes built in the south-east
of England.
Speaking at a Town and Country Planning Association
conference this Wednesday, Mr Prescott said: "Too often
in the past, the planning system has failed to respond to changing
demand
for homes in different places. We want plans to take better account
of housing markets and need and reflect the needs and circumstances
of different areas."
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UK land prices 'rocket'
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Staggering eight-fold increase over the last
20 years
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NEWS
"The
price of farmland has risen by nearly a third in the
past year as a new breed of non-farming buyers look
to fields as an alternative to bricks and mortar or
the stock market, a survey said yesterday. Overall,
the cost of a piece of countryside has gone up by up
to 30 per cent this year and by 130 per cent since
the early 1990s, according to the survey by the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors."
– Telegraph.co.uk, 12/11/04
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Half-acre bought for £1,000 11 years ago now worth £3.5m
Mark,
41, scraped together the cash for the land 11 years
ago when he was on the dole. Now he has made a 350,000
per cent profit after it was snapped up by a house-building
firm.
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Mirror.co.uk, 18/02/2006
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