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Green belt debate ignoring Brownfield development opportunities - Teather

4.13.48pm BST (GMT +0100) Wed 3rd Aug 2005

Sarah Teather (photography: Sarah Teather)

Commenting on the debate on the development of Greenfield sites Sarah Teather MP, Liberal Democrat ODPM Spokesperson said:

"The Government is taking the wrong approach to protecting our precious green spaces. Its proposals to reduce local accountability for greenbelt protection will simply lead to more development and a diminishing greenbelt.

"A better approach to the need for new housing in the South East would be to encourage better use of Brownfield sites and abandoned buildings. The current VAT regime encourages developers to build on new sites and ignore the renovation potential of existing buildings.

"We would end this bizarre incentive by equalising the VAT rates on new build and renovating buildings."

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