‘CROWN JEWELS’ of our countryside under threat like never before CPRE analysis of AONBs reveals • Since 2012, the amount of greenfield land in England’s Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty that will be built on has more than doubled (129% increase)
• CPRE, the countryside charity is calling on the government to halt this reckless development and prevent high levels of housing pressure in AONBs through the upcoming Planning Bill
• Worse still, this development is ‘land hungry’ and doing little to solve the affordable housing crisis
• Land allocated for housing in the Forest of Bowland and Arnside and Silverdale AONBs
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