A green belt is an area of land that usually surrounds a town or city, and is kept open by government restrictions on further development. Often it comprises both public and private land. Green belts provide both recreational areas and landscape, but...

A swathe or broad strip of land surrounding an urban area that has been designated as being preserved for either natural or agricultural use and is thereby protected against urban or industrial...

A green belt or greenbelt is a policy or land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenways or green wedges which have...

THE decision by West Berkshire Council to allow Vodafone to relocate from Newbury to a greenfield site close to the town is a mistake. It is all too easy to see how it came about. Here is a thriving, high tech firm, internationally successful,...

Byline: Steve Doughty NEARLY 14,000 acres - the equivalent of 80,000 football pitches - havebeen lost to the Green Belt in the areas under greatest pressure for newhousing since Labour came to power, figures showed yesterday. Parts of Essex, Cambridgeshire, Kent...

The Declining of the World's Parks While the state of the world’s parks is sometimes depressing, knowledge is our first step toward a solution.Not far from the western edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the shade of black birches, hemlocks, tulip poplars, and oaks...

The common complaint about Oscar fashion choices of the past few years is that stars played it too safe. Not so this year.Jennifer Hudson arrived on the red carpet at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday in a brown ruched gown with a...