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Greenbelts under attack

Language: English Series: Financial Times ; 14 December 1997, 5 | Daily Telegraph ; 22 December 1997, 15(3)Publication details: 1997Subject(s): Summary: Government faces pressure from local authorities to approve development plans for greenfield sites, due to local authorities` need to satisfy housing demands. Lists some of the councils demands on greenbelt land. Andres Duany a guru of New Urbanism, who specialises in building `neighbourhoods`, believes that the green belt is doomed, but that only the wrong sort of development is bad.

Government faces pressure from local authorities to approve development plans for greenfield sites, due to local authorities` need to satisfy housing demands. Lists some of the councils demands on greenbelt land. Andres Duany a guru of New Urbanism, who specialises in building `neighbourhoods`, believes that the green belt is doomed, but that only the wrong sort of development is bad.