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Planners have pledged to fight to preserve Berkshire's green spaces despite pressure for more housing.

A treasury report, released on Wednesday, says up to 140,000 new homes need to be built every year to meet housing demand.

Some 41,000 homes are expected to be built in Berkshire in the next decade, with campaigners calling for brownfield sites to be used.

Berkshire's planners have vowed to use urban sites wherever possible.

Stuart Hylton, who heads the joint strategic planning unit which represents all six of Berkshire's councils, told the BBC: "One of the main themes of our plan is to concentrate as much of the housing as possible into the existing urban areas.

"We're building now at higher densities than we have in years gone by and we think that a great majority of the housing we are going to need over the next 15-year period can be built in the urban areas without the need to go onto green fields."

The report's author, Kate Barker, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, has conceded her recommendations to boost housing supply would have implications for the environment.

But she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "This isn't about tearing up the planning system. It just means there is more land ready and available so when the market indicates more housing is needed."

Pierre Williams, of the House Builders Federation, said: "There is a national need for housing to take precedent over parochial concerns.