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Article: Would you accept green belt development if cheaper homes could be built?
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- Mortgage Strategy
- Article date:
- September 10, 2007
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The South-East England Regional Assembly has recommended building 32,000 homes, prompting a warning from the Tories that this would mean green belt development. But Ray Boulger, senior technical manager at John Charcol, says the public would support this if it meant larger and cheaper properties.
Paul Brown, 33, projectionist
If you're looking for a decent-sized property that is relatively affordable in London these days, you have to look further away from the city centre. It's difficult to get on the property ladder so there's obviously a need for more housing to be built. You see new-build projects going up all the time and sometimes they just sit ...