Comment on Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 6 days agotrading a percent or so of total land area to ensure people have homes
Ignoring the huge amount of brownfield area we have from closed factories etc.
Honestly if it was truly about a shortage of land. I’d be all for it. But it is not. It is about refusing to clean up and build on already developed land. In an attempt to increase profits.
Denjin@lemmings.world 4 days ago
And the country’s largest project to convert a brownfield site (Teesworks) to housing has sucked up hundreds of millions in public grants and investment, hoarded cash and extracted private profit for one man Lord Ben Houchen.
Possibly the biggest case of corruption and mismanagement in our time.