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With a continuing housing crisis and calls to review the role and future of green belt, we need to consider other ways to better create and integrate multi-role landscapes within and around our urban-centred populations. Long-standing complaints against green belt include:
it isn’t necessarily scenically attractive or accessible to the general public;
by constraining urban areas and the availability of developable land, green belt increases property prices and constrains economic development;
it increases commuting distances for those forced to live beyond its outer edges, which reduces urban sustainability; and
it reinforces inequality between those lucky or rich enough to live within green belt and those that do not
Green belt is seen as a constraining girdle, often inaccessible and irrelevant to many. Poor development edges, uncontrolled public access, fly-tipping and withdrawal of land management interplay to erode the quality of much green belt on its inner urban edge, and also undermine its public backing. Development that infills and rounds off the urban edges can erode accessibility to the inner boundaries of green belt and further reduce its importance to many. If green belt is to remain relevant, it needs to be part of a positive approach to its long-term management, enhancement and adaptation outside formally designated public parks.
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