Lib-Dem bill will help protect Leamington's back gardens

6.04.23pm GMT Wed 20th Dec 2006

The Government's current planning policies treat your back garden as a "brownfield site" - like an old industrial site - which means they are vulnerable to infill development.

"This is an issue we have suffered from in Leamington especially and we need to be sensitive to the unique nature of our town and the knock on effects of increased traffic, growing parking problems and we need to protect many of the fantastic trees we have that help make Leamington a great place to live." Commented Alan Beddow, the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson for Warwick & Leamington.

Liberal Democrats believe back gardens serve an important social and environmental purpose and have published a Bill in Parliament calling on the Government to protect back gardens and parkland from over-development. These local green spaces should be treated as the important "greenfield" sites they really are - not as old industrial sites as the Conservative and Labour Governments have labelled them.