Save the Cotswolds Petition

ABOUT OUR PETITION:

Keir Starmer’s Labour Government have imposed ridiculous new housing targets for the Cotswolds, the impact of this is that Cotswold District Council (CDC) now have to find space for over 18,000 houses over the next 18 years – over 1,000 homes per year! We want to fight this and save the unique nature of our Cotswold landscape while providing new homes in the appropriate locations with accompanying infrastructure.

Development is heavily constrained across much of the district due to the Cotswold National Landscape. Therefore, the government is forcing CDC to “shoehorn” all of this housing requirement into just a few small areas of the district – concreting over our rural landscape in the process.

This isn’t thoughtful planning it’s a top-down mandate from Westminster that ignores the unique character and limitations of our rural communities. The scale of development being proposed is totally unsustainable, and risks turning parts of our rural district into sprawling urban suburbs rather than preserving its unique heritage and landscape.

We absolutely need more homes - but they must be genuinely affordable, sensitively located, and supported by proper infrastructure. Blanket housing targets that fail to consider local needs and environmental impact are not the answer.

We – the undersigned - call on the Labour Government to take account of the evidence and constraints of development in Cotswold District and urgently reduce the housing target for to a more sensible and sustainable level.

Save the Cotswolds!!

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