Captain Dart
Well-Known Member
To stop the Council allowing building on green belt, once its gone its gone!
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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.
They say they will, but as that is not mandatory I don't believe them.Have to admit, I'd rather they headed for the brownfield sites first.
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!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?
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.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!
Steady on now!even if it means councils building on it themselves.