How to protect our green and pleasant land?

03/21/2012 admin British, Countryside

An environmental alert from The Independent.

For more than 60 years, the English countryside has been preserved from unthinking development by a demanding set of planning laws which evolved from the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act. Too much so, this Government believes. It is taking the 1,300 pages of planning regulations and reducing them to just 52. Groups which campaign to protect the rural landscape have been fighting to prevent the Government sweeping away these laws. It looks as though they have failed.

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British Countryside, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Green Belt, The Independent, The National Trust