WORRIED Susan Durrant, 60, and Malcolm Durrant, 62, overlooking land off Havant Road. Picture: Malcolm Wells (121977-7036)
PRECIOUS green gaps that separate towns and villages in the Havant borough and East Hampshire are under major threat, campaigners warned today.
For hundreds of years countryside has been sandwiched between places like Havant, Emsworth and Rowlands Castle.
But green campaigners now fear there could be a deluge of planning applications to build on these gaps.
It comes as residents are set to face developers tonight to discuss a controversial application to build up to 180 homes on land off Havant Road, which has traditionally been part of the strategic gap to prevent Emsworth and Havant joining up.
Recent changes in national planning laws mean strategic gaps no longer exist – and are considered for development like any other greenfield site.
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