| It is green belt land and so housing development is considered inappropriate. |
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| The green belt must be safeguarded and any encroachment of this must be strongly opposed at all costs. |
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| About 80 per cent of the City of York Council area is within the green belt. |
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| Last week, both ministers advocated ripping up Britain's green belt to solve the housing crisis. |
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| One of the biggest concerns for the town council is if we allow this one, it would open up the green belt to other applications. |
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| Secondly it is a green belt site and the council has a policy to develop brown belt first. |
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| Bradford Council said the site was in a green belt area, which imposed restrictions on applications. |
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| Relaxing planning controls over development in the green belt would unleash a wave of unsustainable urban sprawl. |
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| In fact, this is little more than a cleverly disguised plan to build houses on historic green belt land. |
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| Little can be built in the grounds of a Grade One listed building and the area is also in a conservation area and green belt. |
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| The area stands within the green belt despite having been an industrial site in use since the late 18th century. |
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| The proposed site, which is near to Beckfoot School, was formerly green belt until an inspector redesignated it. |
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| Planning officers have recommended the refusal of the application because it is on green belt land. |
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| The council wants the land to be regraded as a green belt site, effectively protecting it from development. |
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| We should view the green belt as an appropriate setting for the city and an asset to its future generations. |
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| Here is a perfect example of the delicate balancing act that is required when making decisions on use of the green belt. |
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| All that's needed is a canvas khaki green belt, or even a jacket with patch pockets and very defined shoulders. |
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| But following new Government planning guidelines, the undeveloped land looks set to be placed back into the protective green belt. |
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| Residents fighting the decision to redevelop green belt land are fearing the worst as the Government nears a final decision. |
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| This is where the green belt begins, the northern slopes rolling down to form the edge of Epping Forest. |
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| He says the development, also on green belt land, would be run as a business with water, electricity and an on-site manager. |
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| Whitehouse said that keeping horses in the area preserved the openness of green belt land. |
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| The land was excluded from the original plans because it is partly in the city's green belt. |
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| The owners of a new stud farm on green belt land are being allowed to extend the buildings. |
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| He said afterwards that such a major development in a green belt was unacceptable. |
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| Hyndburn Council refused to say whether or not it had told Mr Smith the land was in green belt. |
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| The area adjoins the Dublin conurbation, and is a designated green belt amenity and agricultural resource base. |
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| He said Magellan had chosen the number of houses to reduce the footprint of development on the site, to reduce the impact on the green belt. |
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| Retrospective planning permission for the garage and underneath storage building, which is on green belt land, had already been refused. |
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| Sevenoaks Council has issued a warning to people thinking about buying plots of land in the green belt for housing. |
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| She's working out her post-dot-bomb angst by training for a green belt in karate. |
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| Acting on the report, the High Court had directed the Government to take action to clear the green belt area from encroachments. |
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| Homeowners have received an anonymous letter warning them of an increase in illegal encampments on the green belt site. |
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| Far from harming the city, encroachment on the green belt will harm the surrounding villages. |
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| In summer, the watercourse provides a green belt that distinguishes the town from the dun expanse that surrounds it. |
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| As well as being a scheduled monument, Castle Hill is within the green belt and is in an area of special landscape value. |
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| It's a brownfield site in all but name, even though there are plans to demolish some buildings to try and make it look more like green belt. |
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| We would prefer to see in-fill development on brownfield sites rather than building on our precious green belt. |
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| In addition, the public generally may be affected if, for example, conservation areas or the green belt is affected. |
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| The owners of several sites have also carried out changes of use and minor building work on green belt land, without planning permission. |
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| There must also be a realisation that the rush to build housing all over the green belt and in rural areas is dangerous folly. |
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| Planners, who will consider whether to grant planning permission next month, have received at least 12 objections protesting about the loss of green belt land. |
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| They say the area is in the green belt and the proposed retail development is totally inappropriate and would set an unacceptable precedent if approved. |
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| He gave the green belt back to Gawain, and said that he did so for him to remember, and for other chivalrous men to know his adventure at the green chapel. |
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| With its two spectacular churches dominating the skyline, its sprawling green belt and historic buildings, the market town of Beverley continues to attract incomers. |
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| It will ruin a green belt area and our lovely country village. |
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| This scraggy patch of land, part of London's green belt, has been protected from the bulldozers for nearly 60 years. |
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| The council has a policy to refuse new buildings in the green belt unless they are for farming, forestry, outdoor sport and recreation or in very special circumstances. |
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| The campus of the world's largest sport university lies idyllically in the middle of the city's green belt. |
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| A green belt, formed basically of forests, has been developed around the city. |
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| Proceeds from the recycling and resale of the handsets are reinvested in Earth Day's green belt projects. |
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| In 1974, the head offices and the production plant moved into the green belt in Ste Foy-lès-Lyon, near Lyon. |
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| Together with the green belt on the Ontario side, Gatineau Park on the Quebec side is one of the jewels in the crown of Canada's capital. |
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| The rehabilitation programme was based on the creation of a green belt along the banks of the river, over a large part of the area affected by the pollution. |
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| Tenders are invited for providing gravel for walking track along national highway green belt from skew bridge to ramavarappadu ring. |
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| It also raised the issue of the green belt, which aims at promoting the demarcated area. |
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| Similarly, suburbs such as Juniper Green and Balerno are situated on green belt land. |
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| Examples of these independent wedges of green belt include Holyrood Park and Corstorphine Hill. |
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| The recent cyclone had extensively damaged the green belt of the site, which acted as a buffer zone as well as a screen against possible salt infiltration from the sea breeze. |
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| A 25-mile green belt runs through the city. |
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| Applicant D Woodhead, of Lane Head Farm at Shepley, lodged a plan to erect a 15m microgeneration turbine on green belt land. |
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| The city of Coventry is also located within the West Midlands county, but is separated from the conurbation to the west by several miles of green belt. |
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| Unless, of course, you worry that the Government's hell-for-leather plans to build yet more green belt homes will permanently cloak it in concrete. |
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| Expansion affecting the green belt is strictly controlled but developments such as Edinburgh Airport and the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston lie within the zone. |
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