Will our countryside soon be concrete?; A backlash is beginning as...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  August 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ......more than 30,000 new homes being planned on greenfield and green belt sites over the next...angrily rejected the green belt housing proposals...Exeter ALMOST 7,500 new homes are being planned...MORE than 10,000 new homes are intended for...many of them in ...

FOCUS TOWN AND COUNTRY: Do we need the Green Belt? From Hertfordshire to...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 2, 1997 ;     700+ words ......of protecting the green belt of land around many...some 4.4 million new homes that officials say...do so. What the green belt planners could not...that 4.4 million new homes will have to be...you do so, bits of Green Belt all over the country...still on ...

Housing 'land grab' angers councillors; New homes continue to be needed....

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  January 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ......reports. IT'S no secret that new homes are wanted in Huddersfield...pledge for three million new homes in England by 2020. From...find space for 22,140 new homes each year. This will mean nearly half a million new homes within the next 20 years...may require a review of ...

Fury over new homes shock; HOUSING: Rural groups join together for...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  October 17, 2008 ;     374 words ......build up to 100,000 new homes in Coventry and Warwickshire...cherry-pick desirable green-belt spots for expensive new homes while leaving Coventry...free-for-all for green belt development in the...Warwickshire, according to a new government commissioned...when ...

March to save green belt ; A grim procession of protesters descended on...

Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  October 25, 2008 ;     448 words ......plans to build thousands of new homes. A hearse bearing a green coffin to symbolise the death of the green belt around Bath and outlying...blueprint which calls for 21,300 new homes to be built in Bath and...to the concreting over of green belt. Residents, led by ...

Fears over new homes; DEVELOPMENT:Viability of plans questioned.(Features)

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  February 14, 2007 ;     322 words ......build thousands of new homes in Coventry sparked fears over green belt land and a lack...24,400 or 44,000 new homes. Councillors yesterday...concern over using green belt land to build the...figure highly in any new homes built, said: A lot...been made ...

Things you never knew about house building; NEW HOMES WEEK: Newer is a...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  March 22, 2006 ;     228 words ...1. Britain's Green Belt isn't disappearing under...reality, with 72 per cent of new homes now built on brownfield...We are building fewer new homes annually than at any time...Second World War. Fewer new homes were built in 2001 than...

Green belt earmarked as plans for 800,000 new homes are unveiled.

The Evening Standard (London, England);  February 3, 2003 ;     407 words ......HENNESSY UP TO 800,000 new homes are to be built...Thousands of acres of green belt land have been...claims 556,000 new homes are to be built...square miles of green belt land, an area larger...60 per cent of new homes on brownfield sites...there could be ...

Letter: Your Say - New homes woe ; In association with POST OFFICE

Birmingham Mail;  May 16, 2008 ;     57 words ......okay - just send them to Birmingham where we are already over-crowded and have hardly any green belt left. We do not have any say as to if any new homes should be built or not. They get right up my nose! Beryl, Kings Heath

Nimbyism, sustainability and affordability must be tackled if we are to...

The Birmingham Post (England);  September 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......to build three million new homes by 2020 and to unveil...target, the output of new homes will have to increase...figure of 160,000 completed new homes. Alan Brown, Birmingham-bas...achieve the PM's target. The new homes which he wants to see...three sets of figures for ...

New homes plan threatens green belt in Midlands.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  May 8, 2008 ;     439 words ......A thousand hectares of green belt land the West Midlands...because of plans to build new homes, the Campaign to Protect...Government to preserve green belt nationally, it has been...developments including new homes, airport extensions, park-and-...homes would be built ...

Letter: Your Say - New homes woe; In association with POST...

Birmingham Mail (England);  May 16, 2008 ;     59 words ......okay - just send them to Birmingham where we are already over-crowded and have hardly any green belt left. We do not have any say as to if any new homes should be built or not. They get right up my nose! Beryl, Kings Heath

Inspectors want to curb Brown's plan for thousands of new homes

Evening Standard - London;  August 29, 2007 ;     439 words ......public in suggesting the green belt would be protected. The...target to three million new homes by 2020. If Mr Brown...to impose millions of new homes on the South- East are...any large review of the green belt, but concludes that some...

MPs slam new homes targets

Bath Chronicle, The;  November 6, 2008 ;     651 words ......campaign to drive up the number of new homes being built has been slammed by two...today. Ministers want three million new homes built across the country by the year...Regional Spatial Strategy - 21,300 new homes will be built in Bath and North East...opportunity to re-examine plans ...

Last-ditch battle to stop housing boom ; Rural campaigners are preparing a...

Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  May 20, 2008 ;     538 words ......slash the number of new homes planned for the West...the overall number of new homes planned for the area...before it encroaches on green belt areas and destroys...projected figure of 28,000 new homes a year across the South...which would be built on green ...