Comments on: Thoughts on, views from, the green belt

By: YorkStories

YorkStories — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:04:07 +0000

It certainly seems to have taken a long while and a lot of work by many people to get to this stage. Such a lot of information for everyone to work through though, in quite a short period of time. I don’t think I’m going to try to tackle the subject of wind farms …

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:43:40 +0000

The Plan actually defines a ‘Green Belt’ – Good news because with the National Planning Regs being loosened – (Branded a ‘free for all’ by the National Trust) – Without a Local Plan, buildings could have popped up all over the place.
The Local Plan seems to allow for 2% of defined Green Belt to be built on for homes over the next 20 years – Not bad, considering the homes crisis in York and the possible effects of having no Plan –

By: Drake

Drake — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:06:36 +0000

So much of the biodiversity of gardens is lost by the block paving and concreting of gardens by the multiple car gang.Water no longer soaks in to the earth but runs off in to clogged storm drains and leads to flooding ….another problem and another issue of building on green belt

By: Martyn

Martyn — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:32:53 +0000

Excellent post - my thoughts entirely. I could understand much of the furore around the loss of green belt if the agricultural land around York was flower rich meadows, pasture and hedgerows. By and large it isn’t. It’s flat east of England intensively farmed monoculture sliced through by pylons. I think there’s been studies that show that suburban housing with gardens actually increases biodiversity when land like that is built on. People living in villages around York are not living in rural idylls, they’re islands in the middle of agri-industry.