2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: "Hersh, Robert" <hersh@WPI.EDU>
Date: 29 Jan 2007 15:24:02 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] UK gardeners against brownfields
 
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is pointing people towards a new
campaign aimed at saving urban gardens from the clutches of developers.

Following changes to the planning law in 2000, gardens have been defined as
brownfield sites, which means that developers are able to acquire houses with
large gardens and put in planning applications to build on them or tarmac
over them, the organisation said.

The organisation has pointed keen garden conservationists in the direction of
the Save Our Gardens campaign run by charity Garden Organic.

According to Garden Organic, even if local people and the council deny
planning permission to a 'garden grabbing' scheme, it can be approved by
planning inspectors if it helps to meet developers' "new housing" and
"building on brownfield sites" targets.

The organisation is campaigning for gardens to be removed from the definition
of brownfield sites, claiming that gardens fulfil a range of important
functions for the community and the environment.

To read the rest of the article, see:
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/Gardens.news/aID/580731


Bob Hersh
CPEO
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