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Representation ID: 46153

Received: 29/09/2021

Respondent: Mr John Clarke

[Dudley Greenbelt]

Removal of green belt status from greenfield sites

What exactly is the point of designating land as 'green belt'?
If it only remains classified as green belt all the me you don't wish to build on it; and then ceases to be green belt the moment you do, then the classification offers no protection whatsoever to undeveloped land.
It is sad that Dudley MBC does not value its green spaces enough to want to keep them all, or indeed the recognised health benefits of such spaces to its borough residents.
Brownfield first is a sham. Brownfield only has to be the way to go.
How long will it be before Worcester Lane or the Stourbridge to Kidderminster road become continuous runs of housing? All in the name of supposed necessity.
Developers love building on farmland because it gives them more profit. Aren't we lucky in this country that the rest of the world supplies so much of our food. I wonder what will happen when it either can't, or won't?