Prospective Conservative MP Steve Brine has welcomed a pledge to end so-called 'garden grabbing'.
Steve Brine, the Prospective Conservative MP for Winchester & Chandler’s Ford has welcomed a pledge to end so-called ‘garden grabbing’ if the Conservatives form the next Government.
The promise from David Cameron comes within a major housing policy paper, entitled Strong Foundations. Steve says; “Housing and the many issues associated with it dominate my postbag and the local press. I am very often publicly against new housing developments, very often because they are inappropriate over-development without local support. No-one however, should take that to mean I or the modern-day Conservative Party are anti-housing; people need new homes but they must come from our communities and strengthen them not weaken them.
“It was that genius John Prescott who decided to classify back gardens as brownfield sites shortly after New Labour came to power in 1997 and the damage that has done across the suburbs of Winchester and in Chandler’s Ford has been huge. I have campaigned very hard alongside my Conservative colleagues locally to get this reversed if we win the election and am delighted to see it now in black and white from the Shadow Cabinet.”
The Conservative policy as stated in the ‘green’ housing paper:
- We will end the blight of garden grabbing: The classification of gardens as brownfield land will be reversed, and we will allow councils to prevent over-development of neighbourhoods and stop 'garden grabbing', which has resulted in a glut of flats and the concreting of suburban family homes with gardens.
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