A report has called for the relaxation of Green Belt land restrictions in order to promote the development and construction of housing and business ventures.

Titled “Cities for Growth” the report comes from the Policy Exchange and tries to push forward the idea that building on current Green Belt areas can help reduce the problems we’re facing currently with our lack of housing.

Authors of the report state that future housing needs will not be satisfied by the current amount of brown field sites available to the construction industry and that by opening Green Field sites up for future developments we can meet those future needs.

Citing areas such as Richmond, Fulham and Manchester’s suburban areas as examples of successful developments that contribute to the idea of being “green” by having large public spaces and parks.

The report goes on to claim that current policies regarding green sites are out of date and that if we can’t build on green sites we’ll then destroy attractive green areas within the city that aren’t considered green as an alternative.

Garden Cities were mentioned within the report briefly due to their complicated nature but seen in a positive light with strong examples inclusive of the Docklands and the Olympic projects.

The aim is to build on more Green sites to accommodate for the lack of housing and development space; it all looks very promising but it’s difficult to see past the idea that this is just building up a strong case for destroying what little Green Field areas we have left in large towns and cities to make room for business ventures and housing space.

Effectively we need to make a priority decision between keeping what little nature we have in urban areas of the UK, or accommodating for rising numbers in the population and business ventures that could aid the current state of the economy.

It’s a heated debate that is influenced by how focussed the government body is on producing Garden Cities; which is a long and exhausting process that could cost us more than it would make for our economy, that is currently something our nation doesn’t need more pressure on.

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