{"id":9069,"date":"2014-12-03T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9069"},"modified":"2014-12-03T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:56:54","slug":"space-for-over-one-million-homes-on-brownfield-cpre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9069","title":{"rendered":"Space for over one million homes on brownfield: CPRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Over one million homes could be built on England\u2019s brownfield land, research from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) suggests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CPRE writes<\/span>:<br \/>\nWith estimates for brownfield capacity previously ranging from 200,000 to 1.8 million, the report provides the first comprehensive figure for brownfield capacity since the end of mandatory local authority submissions to the National Land Use Database (NLUD) in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Based on research conducted for CPRE by the University of the West of England (UWE), \u2018From wasted space to living spaces\u2019 concludes that a minimum of 976,000 new homes could be built on identified brownfield sites. But the researchers note that even this figure underestimates suitable land as it only identifies land already derelict or with planning permission; it does not include currently underused land that could be used for housing, such as car parks, or new brownfield land that will become available.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the report, housing and planning minister Brandon Lewis said: \u2018This Government wants to see the maximum amount of brownfield land being used to build new homes, whilst also maintaining protections for our beautiful countryside. That is why our planning reforms encourage councils to use brownfield land for new buildings, free up disused public sector land for redevelopment and why we\u2019ve invested \u00a3235m into bringing 80,000 long term empty homes back into use since 2010.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Space-for-over-one-million-homes-on-brownfield-land-says-report\/37672\" target=\"_blank\">UK Local Gov article\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpre.org.uk\/media-centre\/latest-news-releases\/item\/3784-england-has-space-for-at-least-1-million-homes-on-brownfield-land\" target=\"_blank\">Download the report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over one million homes could be built on England\u2019s brownfield land, research from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) suggests. CPRE writes: With estimates for brownfield capacity previously ranging from 200,000 to 1.8 million, the report provides the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9069\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9069\/revisions\/9070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}