11 Facts About Green belt

Green belt is a policy and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas.

In essence, a green belt is an invisible line designating a border around a certain area, preventing development of the area and allowing wildlife to return and be established.

Green belt did this by prohibiting any further removal of trees in a 12-mile long strip around the city.

Green belt policy was then pioneered in the United Kingdom confronted with ongoing rural flight.

Alongside the CPRE they lobbied for a continuous Green belt to prevent urban sprawl, beyond which new development could occur.

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Where in the city itself demand exceeds supply in housing, green belt homes compete directly with much city housing wherever such green belt homes are well-connected to the city.

Housing market contrasts with more uncertainty and economic liberalism inside and immediately outside of the belt: green belt homes have by definition nearby protected landscapes.

Local residents in affluent parts of a green belt, as in parts of the city, can be assured of preserving any localized bourgeois status quo present and so assuming the green belt is not from the outset an area of more social housing proportionately than the city, it naturally tends toward greater economic wealth.

The stated motivation and benefits of the green belt might be well-intentioned, but inadequately realised relative to other solutions.

The IEA study claims that a green belt is not strongly causally linked to clean air and water.

Restrictions of the Green Belt were particularly in the 1940s-1980s mitigated with planned, government-supported, new towns under the New Towns Act 1946 and New Towns Act 1981.