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Designated areas of green belt in England; the Metropolitan Green Belt outlined in red. In British town planning, the green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth.The term, coined by Octavia Hill in 1875, [1] [2] refers to a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted for the foreseeable future, maintaining an area where local food growing, forestry and outdoor leisure can ...
Green belt in Tehran, Iran Adelaide Park Lands green belt around the city centre Green belt at Thompson Park in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, U.S.. A green belt is a policy, and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas.
Formally created in 1980 after being an interim policy since the 1950s, the local development plan defines the green belt outer edge as being 'about 6 miles from York'. [2] Land area taken up by the green belt is 25,553 hectares (255.53 km 2 ; 98.66 sq mi) hectares (0.2% of the total land area of England (2010). [ 3 ]
Land area total of the green belt is 248,241 hectares (2,482.41 km 2; 958.46 sq mi) (1.9% of the total land area of England (2010). [11] Its coverage is within the South and West Yorkshire counties, with extensions towards Harrogate and Knaresborough in North Yorkshire and Chesterfield in Derbyshire.
The green belt's area is 98,550 hectares (985.5 km 2; 380.5 sq mi) as of 2023, [8] and is on the fringes of the Tyne & Wear conurbations, with a line of protected area separating South Tyneside from Sunderland.
A map shows detours for the Clive Greenbelt Trail that will begin Oct. 1 and are expected to last through 2025. "We understand this is an inconvenience on one of the most loved amenities in Clive ...
It was adopted in April 1983 by central government, with a more specific local plan being adopted from September 1994. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] A matching 'Nottinghamshire Sketch Plan Green Belt' was first planned in Nottinghamshire from 1956, again taking several years to be fully realised, before being formally approved by government in July 1980, and ...
Land area taken up by the green belt is 231,291 hectares (571,530 acres), 1.7% of the total land area of England (2019). [2] [3] Tracts of green belt lie within the West Midlands county itself, much of it by the Meriden Gap in Solihull borough; however, the vast coverage of the green belt completely envelops the county.