Archinect - News2024-12-22T06:46:11-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/143528475/encroaching-on-the-green-belt-uk-loosens-protections-on-rural-land
Encroaching on the green belt: UK loosens protections on rural land Nicholas Korody2015-12-16T17:46:00-05:00>2015-12-16T17:46:15-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5c/5czs1yqk1rtmlpt5.JPG?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>If there is one thing Britons dislike more than their country’s housing shortage, it is the idea of building more houses. Even as a lack of homes has sent prices through the roof... cities have remained ringed by protected “green belts” of land that are off-limits to developers. Attempts to build on them provoke outcry. But on December 7th the government published a consultation on letting councils allocate “appropriate small-scale sites in the green belt specifically for starter homes”...</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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