Building more homes, protecting green spaces

Meeting the needs of local people and families in the West Midlands is a major challenge. 

However, progress is being made with record regional housebuilding with 9483 homes being built in the region last year. 

The whole of West Bromwich can celebrate the demolition of a notorious ‘blot on the landscape’ in the town centre - which could kickstart more investment, jobs and opportunities.

I am urging Great Barr residents to sign a petition which aims to protect local Green Belt and open spaces from being developed.

I have been campaigning to ensure that derelict and disused ‘brownfield’ sites are targeted for development before cherished Green Belt.

There should be no need to build any homes on Green Belt land in Aldridge until 2031 – and that goes for the rest of the Black Country too.

I am campaigning to ensure that derelict and disused ‘brownfield’ sites are targeted for development before cherished Green Belt.

I would like to share my thoughts on perhaps the most difficult issue we face in Balsall Common and Solihull – the Green Belt.

A six-point pledge drawn up by Solihull’s Conservative Council will help defend more Green Belt sites while building the new homes needed in the borough.

A six-point pledge drawn up by Solihull’s Conservative Council and one that I have backed hopes to address the ‘formidable challenge’ of defending more Green Belt sites while building the new homes needed in the borough.

Local Conservative MPs and I want the owners of derelict former industrial sites to help save Green Belt across the Black Country – by putting their land forward for redevelopment.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says a pioneering project to build 750 new homes on a derelict Wednesbury site proves that a ‘Brownfield First’ approach to development can protect the Black Country’s green belt land.

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street says Walsall is leading the way in building new homes – while also helping to protect the Green Belt.