Government’s Green Belt Housing Plans.

Councillor Howard Sykes MBE, Liberal Democrat and Opposition Leader on Oldham Council said, “The new government can use any language they like.  But it doesn’t change the realities on the ground in Oldham Borough.”

“We need new affordable housing in the areas people want to live.  That means making use of brownfield land and ex-industrial sites.”

“A Green Belt land grab does nothing to get young people onto the housing ladder.  It only creates unaffordable housing to maximise developer profit.  Green Belt is Green belt and there for a very good reason it exists – calling it Grey Belt is smoke screen and disingenuous.”