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Green belt land just isn’t that green anymore

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par Ben Mayfield, Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University

The new UK government’s plans to “get Britain building” include the reintroduction of targets to build 1.5 million new houses, which is likely to encroach on some of the country’s protected countryside spaces or “green belt”. Further pressure comes from plans to build more energy infrastructure such as pylons and wind turbines as part of the goal of decarbonising the electricity supply by 2030.

The idea of protecting the green belt is both politically [powerful and divisive], but the definition of the green belt has become…

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