Save our Green Spaces and Green Belt

The green spaces around our towns and cities are under threat from development. The government's regional spatial strategy demands 3 million new dwellings and is preparing to give developers permission to dig up the green belt. This film gives details of the green-belt alliance and lets you know what you can do to help. Produced by Skylark Films

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[jo4sky]

And now planning applications are going in around the south west. The Government office of the South West have directed Local Authorities to push on with their Core Strategies and to give any the RSS considerable weight when considering applications. Developers rub their hands with glee, but will they be putting up affordable sustainable homes - or get rich quick executive homes?

[jo4sky]

The regional spatial strategy is due to be published at the end of June. Now is time to register our feelings on the matter. The best way is to write to the minister, Hazel Blears and your local MP.

[jo4sky]

Hi, thanks for your generous comments. I hope that this film will be useful for your campaign in Cheltenham.

[fredmila]

To hell with the green belts and the NIMBYs around them.

I recently came back from Russia and the Ukraine. I saw from the aeroplane that they have such vast extensions of land they could feed the whole world if they turned some more of them into agricultural land. That's where your food can come from and in the near future.

[magpie1942]

really great video. We on the outskirts oCoventry are having their overspill of 3500 houses plus our own Councils proposed 10,000. Where we live is an X mining community and we will be surrounded by these developments all of it Greenbelt land. Magpie

[railroad1908]

It looks like clusters of larger homes. If it's really "a little of both," why didn't they depict ANY developments of integrated smaller houses with mom-and-pop shops and a town square? Do you still have a real growth boundary? Do you allow public transit(rail) in the new area and protect farmers against rising taxes due to neighboring properties? Does industry still sustain the main city?

[bagelboybugle]

En mass green belt encroachment is unsustainable.. how does the government propose to feed the population in 20 years time if they are to bulldoze agricultural land? Write your objections to your own MP and John Healey who was appointed minister of state for housing in June.

[firejack007]

As someone in the US that has worked with city planners and also raise a family, we have had success doing a combination of both. You can't do away with your green areas and you can't keep packing people in like a fortress. You redo whole neighborhoods in the city. At the same time you expand in a more spread out fashion. More parks and small ponds and lakes. More trees and more backyards. A little of both.

[Paradoxia3007]

Excellent video, from an area of the country I love...South Bristol. Greenbelt must be preserved for future generations and wildlife. If the RSS gets through are we really in a sustainable democracy? Contact Hazel Blears and your MP NOW!!

[bill7rob]

Excellent video. Hands off the Green Belt. Hands Off Long Ashton!

[merrilk]

We have countless uninhabited houses and second homes left empty . Wastelands in need of redevelopment. So why are we being forces to squander productive farmland?

Are we then producing places where people want to live? Far from the countryside and removed from the city lights. No cohesive infrastructure socially, educationally or medically.

Where then will we grow our food? China? And how does a carbon aware society import it?

Be afraid this is all our NIMBY

[merrilk]

This countrywide threat to our country should raise alarm bells in us all. We havecountless uninhabited houses, either unlet, second homes or in need of updating. We have wastelands of inner city land in need of redevelopment.