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The big garden reclassification

After "garden-grabbing" by developers proved unpopular in the leafier constituencies, the new government has announced a re-classification of gardens from "brownfield" (which classed them alongside abandoned industrial sites and so made them tempting targets for developers and hard for planners to protect). The Tories argue that garden-grabbing has been stripping towns of valuable green space. John Prescott (and if you heard him squabbling with Zac Goldsmith this morning in the Today programme... who'd have thought they wouldn't get on?) argues that if you've got a garden big enough to build a block of flats in, then you're probably not living in an area that's short on green space. More here.

London's garden grabbers [May 12, 2008]

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It has always been a contention of people living in the South that there is not enough space for more housing, and yet the demand is always high.

Interesting that the likes of Prescott were very keen to build in the South, and yet not too much was said about the North of the country where there probably is the space to do this.

I heard that situations regarding gardens as building sites were going to be treated as individual cases.

Interesting to see if it impacts on new properties entering the market. There is always something to find though if you use the right agents!

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Posted by Dan at June 9, 2010 5:29 PM


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