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The idea is for a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted, maintaining an area where agriculture, forestry and outdoor leisure can be expected to prevail. The fundamental aim of green belt policy is to prevent urban sprawl by keeping land permanently open, and consequently the most important attribute of green belts is their openness.</p> <p class="text03">There are five stated purposes of including land within the green belt:</p> <ul class="text03"> <li>To check the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas</li> <li>To prevent neighbouring towns from merging into one another</li> <li>To assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment</li> <li>To preserve the setting and special character of historic towns</li> <li>To assist in urban regeneration, by encouraging the recycling of derelict and other urban land.</li> </ul> <p class="text03">The green belt has been in existence for around 60 years and is shrinking on a yearly basis as more and more houses are built on what was previously agricultural land. The pressure today on government to build more affordable housing close to places of work to reduce travel times and carbon emissions is simply too much. </p> <p class="text03">The green belt is disappearing as new more modern and better thought out policies to suit present day and future concerns outweigh the need for random green belts around the country.</p> <p class="text03">The area designated as green belt land in England as at 31 March 2010 was estimated at 1,639,560 hectares, about 13 per cent of the land area. This has shrunk dramatically in recent years as the country modernises and more houses are built.</p> <p class="text03">Several academics, policy groups and town planning organisations in recent years have criticised the idea and implementation of green belts in the UK. Greenbelt policy has been attacked as too rigid in the face of new urban and environmental challenges. Amongst other things, it has been claimed that areas of green belt can be of unremarkable environmental quality, and may not be well managed or provide the recreational opportunities originally envisaged.</p> <p class="text03">The Town and Country Planning Association, an organisation heavily involved in initiating the concept several decades previously, published a policy statement in 2002 which proposed a more flexible policy which would allow the introduction of green wedge and strategic gap policies rather than green belts, and so permit the expansion of some urban areas. Similarly, in October 2007, Sir Martin Doughty, then Chair of Natural England, argued for a review of green belts, saying: </p> <p class="text03">"The time has come for a greener green belt. We need a 21st century solution to England's housing needs which puts in place a network of green wedges, gaps and corridors, linking the natural environment and people."</p> <p class="text03">Lewis Abbott has identified greenbelt barriers to urban expansion as one of several major protectionist political-economic barriers to house building with negative effects on the supply, cost/prices, and quality of new homes. </p> <p class="text03">Abbott argues that the greenbelts actually defeat their own stated objective of saving the countryside and open spaces. By preventing existing towns and cities from extending normally and organically, they result in more land-extensive housing developments further out  i.e., the establishment beyond the greenbelts of new communities with lower building densities, their own built infrastructure and other facilities, and greater dependence on cars and commuting, etc. Meanwhile, valuable urban green space and brown-field sites best suited to industry and commerce are lost in existing conurbations as more and more new housing is crammed into them.</p> <p class="text03">Many commentators such as James Heartfield and Alan Evans have called for outright abolition of green belts, principally on the grounds that by inhibiting the free use of land they restrict home ownership.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="955" height="268" align="middle"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="movie" value="swf/JSI_Event02Dom.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <embed src="swf/JSI_Event02Dom.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="955" height="268" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" /> </object></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top" class="text"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top">&copy; Copyright 2010 Jardin Smith International. 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