Just read this in tonights London Evening Standard.......
More then 10,000 acres of green belt land are under threat from developers including..
BP, British Aerospace and the Queen.
They could make Billions of pounds from building thousands of houses on protected land under plans to meet Goverment's housing targets.
Speculators have snapped up large areas of green belt land ahead of the imminent White paper on planning which is expected to relax rural protection rules.
BP could make nearly £10 billion if its advanced plans to build 20,000 homes on 3,700 acres of green belt land it owns in Hertfordshire get the green light.
The crown estate which manages property owned by the Queen could make up to £500 million from the developement of 6,000 homes near the A1
Arlington Securities thr former property arm of british aerospace hopes to make £3billion from sale of some of its green belt land near Hatfield.
green belt boundaries are also under review in other groweth areas around London. Upper Lea valley near Thurrockstand to lose thousands of of acres. gatwick want almost 600 acres for a 2nd runway and another Runway at Luton would swallow up more then 815 acres of green belt including FIVE ANCIENT FORESTS.!
