I know the hon. Gentleman was desperate to get an extra minute. He is making a really impassioned speech and I agree with much of what he has said so far. He mentioned developers snapping up greenfield sites. In my constituency, the local community rose up to protect a site called Udney Park Playing Fields in Teddington, and thanks to a legal challenge it is now protected green space. The developer, however, will not now sell the site back to the community despite a good bid to turn it into playing fields, because they paid over the odds and they will wait years and years until planning policy changes. Meanwhile, the site is going to rack and ruin. Do we not need powers to tackle that?
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Munira Wilson
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 8 June 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill.
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