17/08/2010 10:29 AM
Building developments that involve high security fencing may be in serious danger after the Rural Coalition has criticised government plans to cut spending and introduce a new directive.
The coalition's new report, The Rural Challenge, warns that spending cuts mean rural services will decline, countryside wages will stand at 20 per cent behind urban ones, and housing will become affordable only to the wealthy.
Five key issues need focusing on, with the organisation highlighting housing, decent rural provisions, creating burgeoning market towns and giving local communities vibrancy and independence as of paramount importance.
The Community Right to Build pledge, devised by the Conservatives, has also been criticised. This legislation would require community support of 90 per cent if developments, that may include installations like security fencing and metal gates, are to go ahead.
The coalition has warned that this would result in a quagmire of development hell.
Matthew Taylor, chairman of the group, said: "On its current course, with no change in policy and no commitment to action, much of the countryside is becoming part dormitory, part theme park and part retirement home. We need a fundamental change of approach at both national and local levels to give rural communities a more sustainable future."
Also this month news that the £235 million Playbuilder scheme is set to freeze hundreds of planned proposals has disappointed councils and residents across the UK.
The coalition's new report, The Rural Challenge, warns that spending cuts mean rural services will decline, countryside wages will stand at 20 per cent behind urban ones, and housing will become affordable only to the wealthy.
Five key issues need focusing on, with the organisation highlighting housing, decent rural provisions, creating burgeoning market towns and giving local communities vibrancy and independence as of paramount importance.
The Community Right to Build pledge, devised by the Conservatives, has also been criticised. This legislation would require community support of 90 per cent if developments, that may include installations like security fencing and metal gates, are to go ahead.
The coalition has warned that this would result in a quagmire of development hell.
Matthew Taylor, chairman of the group, said: "On its current course, with no change in policy and no commitment to action, much of the countryside is becoming part dormitory, part theme park and part retirement home. We need a fundamental change of approach at both national and local levels to give rural communities a more sustainable future."
Also this month news that the £235 million Playbuilder scheme is set to freeze hundreds of planned proposals has disappointed councils and residents across the UK.
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