>In 2017, a section of the park was sold by Shrewsbury town council to a developer for high-end housing, but without consulting the community or even advertising the proposed sale, despite there being a legal requirement to do so.
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>“It’s like someone coming along and selling off a part of your garden to build and not checking if it was theirs to sell off, or asking you about it,” said Marion Curtis
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>The supreme court hearing in December could also have an impact on local authorities across the country. Councils are making up for shortfalls in government funding – and attempting to meet the demand for new houses – by selling off to developers pockets of land meant for the public. This is happening at an alarming rate: it is estimated that [nearly half of public land in Britain has been sold off since the 1970s](https://goodlawproject.org/news/public-spaces/#:~:text=Locality%2C%20a%20campaign%20group%20fighting,every%20year%20in%20England%20alone.), and that more than 4,000 public spaces and buildings are being sold off every year in England alone. …
I hope the council loose, it’s disgusting in the current climate crisis that green land is been developed on
I’m quite fortunate that the councillors who rep my area really do care about the green belt.
The last developers essentially put on their planning permission “we know its in the green belt, but the area needs more houses”
They didn’t even try
thats just bloody terrible urban planning. expansion should inherently include green spaces not just for aesthetics of an area but for air circulation too.
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>In 2017, a section of the park was sold by Shrewsbury town council to a developer for high-end housing, but without consulting the community or even advertising the proposed sale, despite there being a legal requirement to do so.
>
>“It’s like someone coming along and selling off a part of your garden to build and not checking if it was theirs to sell off, or asking you about it,” said Marion Curtis
[…]
>The supreme court hearing in December could also have an impact on local authorities across the country. Councils are making up for shortfalls in government funding – and attempting to meet the demand for new houses – by selling off to developers pockets of land meant for the public. This is happening at an alarming rate: it is estimated that [nearly half of public land in Britain has been sold off since the 1970s](https://goodlawproject.org/news/public-spaces/#:~:text=Locality%2C%20a%20campaign%20group%20fighting,every%20year%20in%20England%20alone.), and that more than 4,000 public spaces and buildings are being sold off every year in England alone. …
I hope the council loose, it’s disgusting in the current climate crisis that green land is been developed on
I’m quite fortunate that the councillors who rep my area really do care about the green belt.
The last developers essentially put on their planning permission “we know its in the green belt, but the area needs more houses”
They didn’t even try
thats just bloody terrible urban planning. expansion should inherently include green spaces not just for aesthetics of an area but for air circulation too.