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green belt
[belt n.1 5 a.]
An officially designated belt of open countryside in which all development is severely restricted, usu. enclosing a built-up area and designed to check its further growth.
1932S. Freese Ten-Year Plan 8 This had once been a ‘green belt of country’ as spoken of so glibly by the town-planning ‘experts’ of to-day. 1935Planning 26 Feb. 3 Mr. Herbert Morrison's offer of a sum of {pstlg}2 millions to neighbouring local authorities in order to create a green belt round London represents a belated assumption by the L.C.C. of the wider responsibilities already recognised last century by the City Corporation. 1937Daily Herald 15 Jan., (headline) Green belt maps televised. 1937Discovery Nov. 328/2 To draw the attention of the cities and towns of England to the need for safeguarding the country in their immediate vicinity by means of the establishment of green belts. 1945P. Abercrombie Greater London Plan 1944 ii. 29 One of the first attempts to prevent the expansion of London was made by Queen Elizabeth..on 7th July, 1580, in a proclamation from Nonsuch Palace near Ewell in Surrey (now interestingly enough one of the properties secured as part of the Green Belt). 1958Listener 19 June 1022/3 Parking facilities in the ‘green belt’ areas. 1961E. A. Powdrill Vocab. Land Planning iii. 34 Green belts have at least three specific functions: to prevent the unrestricted sprawl of large built-up areas; to provide areas of unspoilt country⁓side wherein people from the towns can find recreation and enjoyment; and to provide for the continued use of farmland, woodland, heath and common land. 1972Daily Tel. 1 Jan. 2/1 Mr Page, Minister for Local Government and Development, is working on a scheme for extending green-belt policy so that it becomes..a more general protection of the countryside. |