Commenting on Angela Rayner’s House Building targets for the midlands, Michael Fabricant says:  “Angela Rayner’s ambitious plans for a massive house building spree cannot all be built on brown and grey field sites – and she knows it.  While I appreciate the urgent need for extra homes, her assurances just don’t wash.

“In Lichfield, the number of homes to be built will be increased by just over 260 per cent and this is just the beginning.  No calculation has been made by her department based on the availability of industrial and waste land so the inevitable consequence is that more green fields will be turned over to concrete and Lichfield will eventually become part of the sprawling West Midlands conurbation.

“We have seen how this has adversely affected towns like Sutton Coldfield.  The future for Lichfield under Ms Rayner could be equally as bleak losing the character and charm for which Lichfield is rightly renowned” Michael adds.