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March 26, 2014
Vast swathes of the countryside will have to be sacrificed to build new homes for immigrants, the Planning Minister warned last night.
Nick Boles said migrants accounted for almost half of the housing demand, and his figures suggest 100,000 new homes a year will be needed to accommodate them. The minister added: ‘We can’t go on like this.’
Earlier this week, Mr Boles alarmed conservationists by saying up to two million acres of green fields may have to be concreted over to deal with the housing shortage.
Now he has become the first government minister to draw a clear link between housing demand and the legacy of Labour’s open-door immigration policy.
Mr Boles said: ‘The fact is – and I am critical of the last government’s immigration policies – we allowed the population of this country to expand dramatically.
‘The population of England has gone up by two million in the last ten years. These people now live here, these people are now British and they need homes just like other British people.
‘The fact is, 43 per cent of the new households which want a home, is accounted for by immigration.
‘We can’t go on like this. We need to have less immigration and more house-building and we might then have a civilised country.’
Mr Boles warned the scale of demand meant large swathes of countryside would have to be sacrificed, because there were not enough empty homes or developed sites.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said last month that the number of households was forecast to expand at the rate of 230,000 a year. The figure supplied by Mr Boles suggests that immigration will account for almost 100,000 of the total.
Mr Clegg said total house building amounted to just 117,000 last year, adding: ‘There’s only one way out of this housing crisis: We have to build our way out.’
Sir Andrew Green, founder of the think-tank MigrationWatch, said the public would be shocked by the figures, which are significantly higher than the Government’s previous estimate on the issue, which suggested immigration accounted for 36 per cent of new households.
Sir Andrew said: ‘At last a housing minister has been absolutely clear about the link between housing demand and immigration. The best way to deal with the housing crisis is to reduce immigration.’
