Brownfield sites can offer 1 million homes
There is enough spare "derelict land" to accommodate 1 million new homes in England according to a new report. The aim is to highlight that the country has scope to provide housing which doesn't encroach on either the countryside or greenbelt.
As such the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has detailed plots of land the size of Birmingham that could be built upon to provide much needed residential housing.
The Government has set a target of building 300,000 homes a year and the existing 64,250 acres of brownfield sites already identified hold the required infrastructure links.
London could supply enough land to provide 170,000 whilst Manchester, Leads, Birmingham and Sheffield have sufficient space for 500,000 properties.
Planning campaigner Rebecca Pullinger said, "Building on Brownfield land represents a fantastic opportunity to simultaneously remove local eyesores and breath life into areas crying out for regeneration".
She further added, "It will help limit the amount of countryside lost to development, and build more homes in areas where people want to live, with infrastructure, amenities and services in place".
The CPRE is asking the Government to put forward proposals that previously developed or undersused areas of land are the first to be redeveloped.
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