University of Gloucestershire Graduate Newspaper 2020

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Buy land, they’re not making it anymore Poppy Mattthews

The green fields of England are being replaced at a fast rate by hundreds of new housing developments. Reports say that 3 million homes must be built in England over the next 20 years to solve the ‘housing crisis’, with the government planning to build 250,000 homes by 2022. In 2018-2019 the number of new homes built in England hit its highest level in almost 30 years. This project explores a number of different housing developments around Cheltenham, focusing on the impact that these new housing developments have on the land they occupy and the communities that surround them.

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