Residents have until Tues 13th July to comment on CALA’s latest plans for up to 900 houses on Green Belt Land. The PAN proposals are heavy on phrases around sustainability and community benefit – but local people will need to remind themselves that CALA is a profit making volume housebuilder, not a benevolent arm of local government.
To comment further and read about CALA’s proposals – go to https://cala-currievale.co.uk/
Or simply email them directly on hello@cala-currievale.co.uk
Realistically a volume house builder proposing to build on Green Belt land will do just that and no more – you get more houses, more cars and more pollution, and less green space, less agricultural land, and a continued erosion of community identity and sense of place. Sustainability and infrastructure benefits (public transport, schools, surgeries, railway stations, etc) should be funded by local or central government – this incidentally should include publically funded affordable housing on brownfield sites.