Nature chief questions benefit of green belt land - and says it's time to find better uses for it
As house prices fall, the cost of rural land soars to record highs; Overseas buyers and flight from cities produce 40 per cent rise in values .
THE credit crunch is causing a surge in people going on to council house waiting lists.
PLANS for a £35million regeneration of Winsford town centre are moving closer.
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Plans for a £10million centre for education will move forward after all the funding was secured.
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Work is set to start on a £65million scheme to provide care for the elderly in Winsford.
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The green belt is an outdated concept and it should be built on, the man in charge of guarding our countryside said yesterday.
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The Green Belts that have protected the countryside for more than 50 years should be built on, a Whitehall report said yesterday.
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IFAs should look towards enhancing returns for their clients by investing in ‘strategic land’, or land that is allocated for development by local authorities, or unallocated land that has the potential for future development for housing or other uses.
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About two million homes will have to be built on greenfield sites to meet the prime minister's plans to tackle the housing shortage, a think tank warns.
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Developers have bid for the contract to build a £10million leisure complex in Winsford. Three tenders have now been received from construction companies to build the lifestyle centre at Winsford Sports Complex.
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Making a planning application is expected to get easier thanks to the creation of a good practice guide by Vale Royal borough Council.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he will put housing, health and education at the heart of his parliamentary programme for the next year.
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A £40million school built as part of an education revolution in Winsford.
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Everybody knows why property is so expensive. There aren’t enough houses and flats. Everybody knows that the answer is to relax the Soviet-style planning restrictions and build lots more, fast. But many people, including some of the most powerful and vociferous, have resisted the explosion of building that is needed, both to provide housing and to bring down prices.
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Around four million Britons have given up on the dream of owning their own home
The average house will cost ten times people’s annual earnings within 20 years, experts have warned.
Millions of young people will be frozen out of the market by an "inexorable" rise in prices.
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The number of extra new homes being built in Vale Royal looks set to increase by 150 a year.
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A £10MILLION college will be built at the gateway to Winsford.
The Learning Zone can now be built on the old gasholder site after Vale Royal Borough Council agreed to release the land during a meeting on Thursday.
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At least 10,000 acres of green belt land will be destroyed to meet Government house building targets, rural campaigners have warned.
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'Lifestyle centre'
bid reaches final stage.
The building of Winsford's new £10m leisure centre could start as early as November.
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England needs a new national planning body to have the final say on major infrastructure projects such as power stations, a report has said.
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Average house prices have nearly tripled across the whole country during the past decade, says the Halifax.
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The Government intends to reward councils with cash if they give planning permission for hundreds of thousands of new homes.
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Government predictions could see 50% more land than currently planned being allocated over the next 25 years.
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