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Strong Local Voice, Strong Local ChampionAnnette Brooke, Lib Dem MP for Mid Dorset & North Poole |
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Annette Brooke MP welcomes call for rethink on Green Belt development
November 3, 2008 12:00 AM
Annette Brooke, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole today welcomed calls for a re-think of the building of 2,750 new homes around Lytchett Minster, by a number of MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee. It is calling on the government to revise house building targets in light of the economic downturn, saying that brownfield sites should be favoured over the Green Belt.
Annette Brooke MP has been working hard to save the Green Belt in her constituency since the proposals were first announced. Annette said:
'These vast new housing developments are not the answer to the undoubted problem of the housing needs of young people. The government should be looking at how to fulfil the need in existing communities. I shall continue to fight against these proposals. The proposed destruction of greenbelt land in my constituency is a tragedy.'
Annette has already debated Green Belt policy in the Commons, and in October led a protest outside Westminster before heading to Downing Street to present a personal letter to Gordon Brown.
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