article_snippet: Just this month David Cameron said ‘the country’s green belt is protected’ and that David Cameron viewed the country’s green belt continued preservation as ‘paramount’.
article_snippet: In the country’s green belt analysis of nine English regions, the CPRE paper shows that councillors and planning inspectors have signed off major releases of green belt over the past 19 months.
article_snippet: Just over 12 per cent of England is designated as green belt land, a status introduced in the 1950s to protect the countryside around major towns and cities from urban sprawl.
article_snippet: Mark Sitch, senior partner at planning consultancy Barton Willmore said: ‘The new government has to have the ambition and in that first year tackle the green belt.
article_snippet: the green belt is a constraint on economic growth of our cities.
article_snippet: Just over 12 per cent of England is designated as green belt land, a status introduced in the 1950s to protect the countryside around major towns and cities from urban sprawl.
article_snippet: Paul Miner, planning campaign manager at CPRE, said: ‘Paul Miner, planning campaign manager at CPRE need to strengthen green belt protection, not weaken green belt protection.
article_snippet: Planning minister Brandon Lewis said: ‘The green belt is 34,000 hectares larger than in 1997, and green belt development is at The green belt lowest rate since modern records began in 1989.
article_snippet: This Government has safeguarded national green belt protection and increased protection of important green spaces.