Dan Slams Government Plans for ‘Ecotown’ on Local Greenbelt

Local Conservative Parliamentary Candidate Dan Byles has hit out in astonishment at Government plans announced this week for an 'ecotown' to be built 'just north of Coventry'. Dan says that can only mean one place - Keresley Village, a location where local people are already fighting against Government housing targets which threaten local greenbelt land.

Dan Byles, together with Nuneaton Parliamentary Candidate Marcus Jones, has campaigned consistently against the Government's Regional Spatial Strategy, which the pair claim will lead to tens of thousands of houses being imposed on local councils by Government targets.

Now, Dan says the announcement on ecotowns from Housing Minister John Healey has proved that it is the Labour government, and not local councils, who are forcing development on local greenbelt land.

Dan says:

"Ever since John Prescott was put in charge of Labour's housing plans, this Government has sought to impose unsustainable levels of housing on local communities, without consulting local people.

"These ecotowns are a Labour con. There is nothing 'green' about them - it is simply an attempt to put an environmental veneer over a massive housing development on the greenbelt around Keresley Village. It would be a disaster.

"This announcement exposes the truth about our Local Labour MP's lies about housing. He has been trying to blame local councils for something that is Labour Government policy. And now the Government have been caught red handed, trying to bribe councils with up to £10million each to build these houses - and are even instructing the councils where to build them.

"This issue represents a clear choice for the next election. A Conservative Government will tear up these plans and give these decisions back to local councils and to local people."