Dangers of loosing green belts
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English countryside 'almost gone'
Heather in the Yorkshire Dales
The CPRE fears scenes like these could become extinct
England faces losing most of its real countryside in a generation if current trends continue, a report claims.
That just about does it for me... Over fifty years ago, I think it was Goerge Orwell who wrote something along the lines that it is the very the fact that the English love the countryside so much, that it is doomed. He argued that the desire to live in a sort of idyllic rural environment, yet work in the city and enjoy the convenience of shops and commerce, will lead to vast sprawling suburbs criss-crossed with roads, and the eventual disappearance of anything like a real agricultural community in the British Isles.
When a government mouthpiece states that something is "attractive", that means to me "there is some money to be made from its development", i.e. w"e'll sell it to a property developer so he can build yuppie flats".
Keith.
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English countryside 'almost gone'
Heather in the Yorkshire Dales
The CPRE fears scenes like these could become extinct
England faces losing most of its real countryside in a generation if current trends continue, a report claims.
BBC website said:
That just about does it for me... Over fifty years ago, I think it was Goerge Orwell who wrote something along the lines that it is the very the fact that the English love the countryside so much, that it is doomed. He argued that the desire to live in a sort of idyllic rural environment, yet work in the city and enjoy the convenience of shops and commerce, will lead to vast sprawling suburbs criss-crossed with roads, and the eventual disappearance of anything like a real agricultural community in the British Isles.
When a government mouthpiece states that something is "attractive", that means to me "there is some money to be made from its development", i.e. w"e'll sell it to a property developer so he can build yuppie flats".
Keith.
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