Letters – We must protect our greenbelt
Dear Editor,
Yesterday, a letter published yesterday from Sheila Spencer attacked UKIP
over the issue of housing. Ms Spencer seemed to advocate the building of
hundreds of thousands of homes, presumably on our precious
greenbelt.
Currently more than 6,000 homes are planned each month to be built on our
countryside.
UKIP would plan to incentivise back into the market the 700,000 empty
homes which lie shamefully across the country. Why plan to build even more
houses when we have nearly three quarters of a million standing
empty?
UKIP would also change planning rules to make it easier to build on
Brownfield sites instead of Greenfield sites. Central government would have the
ability to list nationally available Brownfield sites for development and issue
low interest bonds to enable decontamination – this would raise £5bn to fund our
Brownfield revitalisation programme.
These plans alone would stop the development of the concrete jungle that
our political class seem so intent on creating, and develop a sustainable low
cost housing solution, creating a fairer society for all.
Jonathan Arnott MEP
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