The New Builds Are Coming: Battle in the Countryside

Emissora:BBC Two

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S01E02 - "Episode 2"

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Richard Macer heads to one of our most expensive counties, Oxfordshire, where vast areas of once-protected countryside are being turned into housing. With remarkable access to councillors, developers, architects and campaigners, and filmed over nine months, Richard asks if building these vast estates is a solution to the crisis.

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Status: Encerrada
Idioma: English
Duração: 60 min
Estreia: January 31, 2018
Encerrada: February 7, 2018
Programação: Wednesday às 21:00

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Episódios (1 Temporada · 2 Episódios)

Episode 1

In episode one, Macer explores the controversial decision by the government to free up the green belt to developers. In the tiny charming village of Culham, he finds residents furious at plans to supersize their village to three and a half thousand new homes. But just a few weeks after the announcement of the new estate, sinister developments start to grip the small community. Has little Culham become the centre of a gold rush?

Jan 31, 2018

60 min

Episode 2

In this episode, Macer is with architects, the developers who are changing the face of rural Britain, with the people trying to create a sense of community from scratch, and the pioneers making these new mini-utopias their homes. As one architect of a new development next to the village of Long Hanborough puts it, 'No one has a right to a view -unfortunately. Things change, and we have to get used to that in Britain.'.

Feb 7, 2018