Britain’s housing crisis ‘could be solved by building homes on brownfield land in cities’
But it warned that the definition of the land available for residential development for the registers may be missing opportunities to make better use of existing developed sites - meaning more homes could be provided.on a site are low, so that increasing the number of properties built on brownfield could help councils make the best use of the space and deliver more homes, the charity said.
CPRE is calling for the Government to introduce a genuine “brownfield first” policy which ensures suitable previously-developed or under-used land is prioritised for housing over green spaces and countryside. Rebecca Pullinger, planning campaigner at CPRE, said: “Building on brownfield land presents a fantastic opportunity to simultaneously remove local eyesores and breathe new life into areas crying out for regeneration.
Also could be solved by having less people