This government is an…

This government is an embarrassment. It campaigned on not touching the green belt, and now in office (with a small % of votes), is backtracking.

The Greenbelt safeguards the vital resources that clean our air and water, reduces our flood risks, provides a home for wildlife, and ensures our communities have greenspace to explore.

The Greenbelt Plan, together with the ORMCP and the NEP, identifies where urbanization should not occur in order to provide permanent protection to the agricultural land base and the ecological and hydrological features, areas and functions occurring on this landscape.

If you damage the green belt now, what is to say you won’t erode other protected parts in the future? You can’t get this back. There are thousands of acres available for housing - build there.

Also thanks for announcing this on a Friday afternoon. You’re shady, untrustworthy and not fit to govern.