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Representation ID: 17634

Received: 09/10/2021

Respondent: Jo Jones

As I'm unable to add my comments to the form, I'm emailing you my feelings.
I wholly object to any use of our green belt & undeveloped green spaces for housing/development. There are plenty of brownfield sites & empty properties that should be used. Of course, they will be more expensive to develop, but profit should not be put above the ease of using our green belt.
Once green belt is gone, it will be lost forever. Our green belt & protected sites are not only a precious resource for us humans, but also the animal & insect world & of course, we are all interconnected. We have already done untold damage to our planet.
We have increasing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere which is already impacting us all & we can't expect the ever decreasing green belt & spaces to continually absorb all of our pollution, caused by traffic, fertilisers & power stations etc. We can't keep putting pressure on our natural world by changing the goal posts. Every tree that is destroyed is another nail in our collective coffin & you, the local authority must find more creative ways to find the housing that is needed. Every tree is a guardian of our environment, to a level that we are only just being to understand & we just can't afford to lose anymore. And how dare we chop them down.
I wonder if the decision makers (councillors, planners, etc.) fully understand the massive negative impact to us & our environment of digging up the precious resources of our protected green belt & undeveloped green spaces. I think not!
I pray you will have a sea change in you're collective thinking now before it is too late.