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Morning Briefing: report sparks debate over green belt development
Planning applications have now been made for 460,000 homes on the green belt, a new report has found
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Much of the media this morning, including The Times, is covering a report from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), which has released data on the number of homes planned for the green belt.
The report found that only 22% of those granted planning permission are affordable, with the CPRE arguing that this would eventually be reduced thanks to developers arguing that schemes are not financially viable without that being done.
Radio 4’s Today Programme featured an argument on the topic between a representative of the CPRE and the journalist Jonn Elledge, a strong advocate of building on the green belt.
The Guardian’s coverage of the story, as one might expect, features a range of comments from people in favour of building homes on the green belt.
The story also made the front page of The Telegraph.
The front page of tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph: ’No-deal Brexit will ‘break EU’s own laws’’ #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/C7tfU098zk
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph)The front page of tomorrow's Daily Telegraph: 'No-deal Brexit will ‘break EU’s own laws’' #TomorrowsPapersToday pic.twitter.com/C7tfU098zk
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 5, 2018
Meanwhile, the BBC is reporting warnings from the Children’s Commissioner for England, who says that the financial crisis at Northamptonshire County Council could have “catastrophic consequences”.
The Guardian adds that East Sussex County Council is also about to be dragged into the same situation as struggling Northamptonshire.
In The Telegraph, meanwhile, two former Conservative cabinet ministers – both on the right of the party – have criticised chancellor Philip Hammond.
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They say that his rumoured plan to increase levies on buy-to-let properties in the Autumn Budget is an attack on the property market.
Back in The Guardian, campaigners against child poverty say that low-income families are losing hundreds of pounds each year because of flaws in Universal Credit.
The same newspaper carried a piece by Grenfell campaigner Seraphima Kennedy over the weekend, looking at a story from Inside Housing which last week obtained minutes of a meeting showing the government did not act on warnings in 2014 that its guidance allowed Grenfell-style cladding.
And The Observer has run an article on the poor conditions and insecurity faced by millennials renting in Britain.
On social media
Is it just me or is #BBCr4today using "green field" and "green belt" interchangeably this morning?
— Jules Birch (@jules_birch)Is it just me or is #BBCr4today using "green field" and "green belt" interchangeably this morning?
— Jules Birch (@jules_birch) August 6, 2018
Nicholas Falk compares the approach to urbanisation in China and the UK in the latest @theTCPA Journal:
— Dr Peter Geraghty (@planitpres)Nicholas Falk compares the approach to urbanisation in China and the UK in the latest @theTCPA Journal. pic.twitter.com/wJ9XbbYo3Q
— Dr Peter Geraghty (@planitpres) August 6, 2018
