Prime Minister David Cameron has accused rural opponents of the government's new town planning laws of denying young people home ownership opportunities and disregarding the best interests of the country.
Reform is certainly the buzzword in government at the moment, but there is no real explanation for what they are reforming for. Similarly, Prime Minister Cameron's media address did not fully explain whether the new housing was specifically aimed at providing much-needed housing for people who claim residence here, or for people expected to emigrate from Europe.
“Urban planning reform is important,” said Prime Minister David Cameron. “With the average age of first-time home buyers approaching their 30s, it's vital we build more homes. I believe in social mobility, where people can realise their dreams of home ownership.”
Despite the government's introduction of the sustainability tool “localism,” activists claim that local people can no longer block plans to build new homes on undeveloped land. In reality, however, the government's introduction of “sustainable development” has paved the way for property developers to ignore already developed land and build homes on undeveloped land.
Cameron was speaking in response to a report by 41 groups which said the government was failing to meet around a third of its environmental commitments, including protecting green belts, farm animal welfare and halting the decline of wildlife.
The language used by the 41 organizations has intrigued those following global policies, particularly the United Nations' “Agenda 21/Sustainable Development” policy, which includes a goal of turning rural areas into wilderness.
But how is it possible that both the environmental report and David Cameron's argument that we must build more are products of the same spider?
The UN's sustainable policy, adopted by the UK, has the goal of eliminating private property, but also of rewilding the countryside (as the UN predicts that by 2050 the majority of the world's people will live in cities).
Many people, both in and out of the mainstream, believe that the surge in new homes will create a new housing bubble and lead to even more people losing their homes to the banks. Meanwhile, others remember that the government promised this year that every new home that isn't sold will be government housing – that is, social housing rather than private housing – presumably aimed at all the young people who can't afford to buy their own homes.
But if you're not sure why environmental reports are caught in the UN's web of deception, just take a look at the poll the group published in the mainstream news today, which found that 83% of respondents said the environment should be protected at all costs.
It remains to be seen how aggressively the abandoned countryside will be protected as more people move into the proposed homes.
