Our Environment is under threat from "Developers"
How come they always name the housing estate after what they have destroyed to build it?
This country is being detroyed for in order that the current Blair government can deliver huge profits to their construction industry paymasters. Brown has recently ( Jan 2007 ) introduced REITS ( real estate investmetn trusts ) so that property companies can get big tax advantages and make even bigger profits from screwing up the countryside.
If you have a local campaign to oppose building that will destroy your environment - tell us. Use the "landscape conservation" forum to organise you opposition.
Gordon is a Moron
Recent Events Analysed.
The recent events surrpounding the illegal contributios of millionaire property developer, Mr Abrahams, to various and sund
Tha March of "Development"
England’s green and peaceful land fading fast
The English countryside is shrinking rapidly, and much of it could disappear within 80 years unless there are curbs on new developments.
Alarm over the loss of undisturbed areas of the landscape is being raised today by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). It has commissioned new maps charting the pace of construction that has changed the landscape since the early 1960s.
The striking images show that almost 50 per cent of England is now disturbed by roads, industrial developments, out-of-town retail and business parks and new housing estates.
The “intrusion” maps show exactly how the growth in motorways and roads, power stations, airports, railway lines, power lines, wind farms, mines, and quarries has
affected the countryside. According to the CPRE, only 26 per cent of England’s land area had been disturbed by urban intrusion before the 1960s. This grew to 41 per cent by the early 1990s, and this year to almost 50 per cent, 25,614 square miles (66,399 sq km). The extent of incursion may be even greater, however, as the mapping exercise did not take into account the impact of aircraft noise.
The maps show that the main area of remaining, undisturbed countryside is in the National Parks - Dartmoor, Exmoor, the Yorkshire Dales, the North York Moors, the Lake District and Northumberland - which have strong planning controls. There are also large swaths of deep, unfragmented countryside along the Marches of Herefordshire and Shropshire, and in the North Pennines.
Land in the South East is under the most pressure. In the past decade, 320 square miles (830 sq km) of countryside have been affected by the impact of new developments.
The CPRE is publishing the maps in the hope that they help to rein in the Government’s planned shake-up of the planning system making it easier to build new infrastructure. The CPRE is calling for more building on brownfield sites, and for greater promotion of public transport. Shaun Spiers, the group’s chief executive, said: “The countryside is one of our greatest national assets.”
51,300
square miles, England’s land mass
25,614
square miles affected by noise or visual intrusion today
By Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor
The Times
10 September 2007
Brown's Stalinist Approach
Daily Mail August 3, 2007
More than 100 controversial developments — from airport extensions to nuclear waste dumps — could be forced through by the Gover
