An area of land around an urban area that is protected from large-scale housing.
1 Will the end result be bog-standard suburban housing blighting the green belt ?
2 One appeared to be wearing a green belt with grenades on it.
3 However, Javid indicated the government would not relax protections for the green belt .
4 The public perception of the green belt is out of step with reality.
5 The frock was a brown smock with a narrow green belt .
6 Nearly all of it lay within green belt areas, where development is restricted.
7 The green belt of summer had been sliced cleanly and completely.
8 Or are they a sham -the same-oldsuburbs smothering precious green belt ?
9 Could building on some of London's green belt land solve the capital's housing shortage?
10 You understand why they had to create the green belt .
11 That's why the green belt is so important to people.
12 We may even note his cropped head and his horn suspended from green belt .
13 She gave me a green belt too behind the curtain.
14 Jack wore a broad green belt and August had yellow.
15 Ministers have promised that no new homes will be built on protected green belt land.
16 The land is currently zoned as a green belt but it has long-term development potential.
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