The following article is writting by Alice Thomson of The Times… The solution to our housing crisis is to copy the Victorians and increase density in areas where people actually want to live ‘Grenfell Tower was once a good place to be,” says Mike Long, minister of Notting Hill Methodist…
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Weston’s MP John Penrose has intervened in the West of England Joint Spatial Plan (JSP), with support from a cross-party group of local Councillors representing rural villages. In a letter submitted to the JSP, John welcomes the commitment to ‘Build Up Not Out’ in central Weston, and for a Banwell Bypass, but opposes proposals for 2 new towns – which he says are misleadingly being called ‘Garden Villages’ – near…
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The following is a copy of the letter John Penrose MP sent into the Joint Spatial Plan Consultation: I am writing to respond to the Joint Spatial Plan (JSP) published by the four West of England Councils – Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. There’s…
Read MoreThe government should have the power to levy council tax on building sites straight after a developer gets planning permission, a former Cabinet Office minister has suggested, claiming that it would help to speed up the supply of new homes. John Penrose, a Conservative MP and co-chairman of the all-party…
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