Green group attacks plan for 1m new homes near Oxford and Cambridge
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#41KNH)
Conservationists say 27,000 hectares of green space will be lost to development by 2050
Battle lines have been drawn for one of the biggest nimby battles in decades with a warning from conservationists that a plan to build a million new homes between Oxford and Cambridge will concrete over an area the size of Birmingham.
The Council for the Protection of Rural England has calculated that the scheme, proposed last year by the government's national infrastructure commission (NIC), could see 27,000 hectares of greenfield farmland and woodland lost to development by 2050.
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