The Housing Minister Nick Boles recently remarked that houses are in fact of more value than green fields, having announced plans that some opponents would see as
concreting over the countryside.
But now their candidate has admitted that they will
concrete over the countryside with their plans for 5,000 new houses on green field sites.
Not exact matches
But Mr Clegg claimed garden cities could protect the
countryside, and it would be possible to build them without
concreting over the green belt, National Parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
On April Fools» Day the agency took
over from the Department of Transport the heavy responsibility of covering the remnants of the English
countryside with
concrete, tearing down the houses in the way of the M11 and turning the M25 into a 12 - lane hyperway.
And next to them, people who seem to believe that any expansion into the green is equivalent to «
concreting over the entire
countryside», oblivious to the fact that 90 % of the country is not developed at all.