Winslow Green

Latest update Spring 2011

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In early 2011 the Government announced that all of the Local Development Frameworks which had been demanded by the previous Government and which incorporated Government imposed housing targets had been withdrawn.  All councils are now required to draw up new strategic plans based on local need, rather than being based on arbitrary Government targets.  It was the last Government’s instruction to Councils to build more houses which had provided the opportunity for Greenway Land to try to develop the old airfield site.  Now that local planning strategy is to be determined on a local needs basis, even though Greenway Land still own some 200 acres on the airfield site and still have options on the other 400 acres they had intended to include within the development, the new planning environment makes it almost impossible for a plan of this scale to go ahead without central government intervention.