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Oral Answers to Questions

Tristram Hunt Excerpts
Monday 4th April 2011

(13 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tristram Hunt Portrait Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central) (Lab)
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The last Labour Government oversaw the greatest renaissance of our cities since the Victorian age. Central to that was the densification of development on brownfield sites. Why have the Government junked that policy for more sprawl, the destruction of the countryside and the gutting of our cities?

Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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Under the previous Government’s target, gardens in cities, which make a huge contribution to the biodiversity and pleasantness of life in cities, were erased. We have got rid of that, and our cities can breathe easily as a result.