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Vote on housing development like Hunger Games, says parish council chairman

Source: PA Wire

Local communities are being pitted against each other “like the Hunger Games” in a planning vote over where thousands of new homes could be built on green belt land.

Residents in the Sevenoaks area of Kent have been asked how and where future housing should be built between 2025 and 2040.

In an area where 93% of land is green belt, the third highest proportion in , bosses say they have “had

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