Lib Dems join calls on Government to protect back garden land

East Hants Liberal Democrats have launched a local campaign to support calls in Parliament to protect back gardens and parkland from being concreted over and over-developed.

Many East Hants residents are concerned that windfall development – where suburban gardens are ripped up, often to be replaced with blocks of flats with insufficient parking – is already threatening the character of local communities in the area.

This is happening because the last Conservative Government first labelled our back gardens as “brownfield” land, as if it were any old industrial estate, and now the Labour Government has put that definition into planning rules, leaving local people powerless to stop over-development.

The Liberal Democrats say that the Government are wrong to treat our back gardens as “brownfield” land. These local green spaces are important social and ecological green corridors that should be protected.

Liberal Democrat MP, Lorely Burt (Solihull), has published a Bill in Parliament to change the law to protect local gardens and parkland. The Lib Dems want these green spaces treated as the important “greenfield” land that they really are. This change would also give back to local people and local councils the power to decide the right level of development for their own communities.

East Hants Liberal Democrats have launched a petition for local people to add their support to the Lib Dem campaign in Parliament to change the law to protect our back gardens. East Hants residents can even support the campaign online at: