Birmingham Post - Tag - green belt

Plan to circle Birmingham with trees to protect green belt

Birmingham Post — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:40:00 GMT

Birmingham could be surrounded with trees in a bid to stop the city spreading into the green belt under a new scheme being hatched by senior councillors.

Road safety fears near Meriden gypsy camp

Birmingham Post — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:45:13 GMT

A car crash on a narrow road near an unauthorised gypsy camp has sparked fears over road safety.

West Midlands green belt still not safe after housing targets were scrapped

Birmingham Post — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:30:00 GMT

Parts of the region’s green belt could still be under threat of development despite the new Government’s decision to scrap plans to build 400,000 homes across the West Midlands by the year 2026.

City housing targets put green belt under threat

Birmingham Post — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:59:00 GMT

Green belt land surrounding Birmingham could be swallowed up by 5,000 new homes if ambitious plans to increase the city’s population by 10 per cent are to be achieved, it has emerged.

Plans to increase Birmingham population will homes on green belt

Birmingham Post — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:56:00 GMT

Plans to increase the population of Birmingham by 100,000 are likely to involve substantial house-building in sensitive rural locations, reports Public Affairs Editor Paul Dale.

Time to give greenbelt dogma the chop

Birmingham Post — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:36:00 GMT

Government plans to build hundreds of thousands of new homes in the West Midlands should be met with a bit of give and take - even if it means building on the greenbelt, according to Cala Homes