Article: CPRE anger at business threat to green belt.

Article: New homes will use green belt `equal to West ...
The Independent - London;  January 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...LOCAL COUNCILS are on course to build houses on an area of green belt land bigger than Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton combined, countryside campaigners warn in research published today ...

Article: Green Belt, RIP.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  May 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the amount ofland designated as Green Belt has increased by 82,000 acres ... pastdecade. But the CPRE argued that Green Belt land has been extended mainly ... that in East Anglia and East and West Midlands Green Belt land haddecreased. The report ...

Article: Green Belt. Who cares?(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  August 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... pressure on the West Midlands green belt to be developed ... Europe. Senior West Midlands councillors ... square miles of green belt. Prime Minister ... sites and the green belt will be robustly ... needed in the West Midlands will be made ...

Article: Green belt claims are 'mischief making'.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  August 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... campaigners the West Midlands' green belt is under threat ... who chairs the West Midlands Regional Assembly ... miles of the green belt could be threatened ... encroaching on to the green belt. As WMRA chairman ... with the 38 West Midlands local ...

Article: New threat to green belt in housing survey.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  March 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... hanging over the West Midlands green belt grew significantly ... population mean that the West Midlands will have to find ... involve building on the green belt and green-field ... Rural England. CPRE West Midlands spokesman Peter Langley ...

Article: Green belt clamp blocks diner plan
Evening Mail;  April 10, 1999 ;     420 words ...A CRACKDOWN to protect the West Midlands green belt today blocked a plan to open ... Lane on the Staffordshire-West Midlands county boundary. Government ... impact" on a sensitive strip of green belt land. "The proposed change ...

Article: RURAL MATTERS: Prescott attacked for green-belt ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 19, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... concreting over 2,500 acres of green-belt every year. But Ministers said ... would actually protect the green-belt. The Deputy Prime Minister ... from conservationists that the West Midlands green belt is under attack as never before ...