Green Belt development on land with no environmental value can be a sensible approach to tackling a housing shortage, a landowners association has said, as a row deepens over new builds “swamping” parts of Yorkshire.
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Rural villages forming the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales are at risk of becoming “dormitory towns” for affluent city commuters, local leaders have warned, pricing out young families brought up in the area.
Yorkshire based supermarket giant Morrisons will no longer be wrapping their cucumbers in plastic - and it will prevent 16 million plastic sleeves being used each year, they say.
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THE NUMBER of homes planned for Green Belt land has risen to nearly half-a-million properties but the wave of construction will do little to help people get on the property ladder, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) warns today.
