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Strong Local Voice, Strong Local ChampionAnnette Brooke, Lib Dem MP for Mid Dorset & North Poole |
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Government prolongs its attack on the Green Belt
September 25, 2009 4:22 PM
Annette thinks that the Government should be scrapping plans to build on the Green Belt, not prolonging them
Despite huge opposition the Government has prolonged its attack on the Green Belt by ordering a Further Sustainability Appraisal of the unpopular Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) for the South West
The Government had expected to issue the final version of the South West RSS at the end of June 2009. In May however, the High Court issued a judgment that the Sustainability Appraisal of the East of England RSS had failed to test reasonable alternatives to two of its proposals.
In the light of this judgment it has been decided to carry out a new Sustainability Appraisal in the South West, which will take until early in the New Year.
The public consultation on the South West RSS attracted an unprecedented number of organisations or individuals - around 35,000 -mostly objecting to the overall levels of housing growth and to proposals for urban extensions at or near their own locality.
"This is a terrible decision from a dying Government, these plans should be scrapped not extended" said Annette Brooke, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole. "The South West RSS is hugely unpopular, prompting 35000 people across the south west to object to it.
"Labour has failed to listen to local communities, and instead are trying their utmost to impose ill thought out and undemocratic housing plans onto them."
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