“ Great news, London has a housing crisis and we need more homes.
Everyone on here is up in arms if there is any suggestion of using the industrial farmland on the greenbelt or any undeveloped space, often the argument is that we should use brownfield land.
Most of the space is the brownest of brownfield - it's a car park and an area full of shipping containers. If we can't build here where can we build? - I presume you want the houses to be built in some one else's backyard.
There's no reason the extra council tax paid by residents of these flats can't be used on local services and an extra 450 people in the area will help to revive the high st - more people shopping, eating in restaurants etc will go a long way to helping the high st.
Young people who've been priced out or forced to rent have votes as well, the crisis will eventually get to a point where people will vote to build on the greenbelt, if you want to protect truly green land you should support building on brownfield. ”