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Living near the (noisy) brownfields

A personal perspective from a resident living near one of York’s busy ‘regeneration’ areas. And thoughts on the green belt/brownfields.

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Knapton and the Local Plan

21 June. The summer solstice. Standing by a field gate, at around 9pm.

Close up of green field

Just one field. One bit of one field. Greenfield/green belt land. At Knapton.

I’d been out on my bike up Acomb way and … More … →

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Thoughts on, views from, the green belt

Track on agricultural land, grass, earth, hedges, trees

The Local Plan … concreting over the green belt, erecting hundreds of wind farms as far as the eye can see and putting travellers’ sites in all the remaining bits.

Or something.

I’m still trying to work it out and find my way through the information/misinformation.

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