Green belt is often not particularly special. You tend to get a mix of golf courses, ugly stable blocks, compound style houses, and garden centres. It is a bl

Green belt is often not particularly special. You tend to get a mix of golf courses, ugly stable blocks, compound style houses, and garden centres. It is a blunt instrument to prevent urban sprawl that completely ignores the specifics of the location in question. A good development in green belt should be possible. You should be able to avoid sprawl using other methods which could be applied to the entire country. There are hundreds of towns that are sprawling that are outside of green belt. It is a terrible policy. Also, some agricultural fields are not particularly valuable for food production or as habitat for nature. People just see green and assume that it is special and important. We need to actually judge these things in a scientific way.