UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development | Environment

According to an investigation by Guardian and European partners, concrete and bricks and fees were lost in the new forest – equivalent to the new forest – 604 km2 – in the UK between 2018 and 2023.

In the same period, the loss of the most protected and special natural areas in the UK, Wales and Northern Ireland, known as national landscapes, reached 12 km2; Equivalent to natural land equivalent to 1,680 football field.

For Norsk Institutt, Norwegian publisher NRK and nine other news organizations in 11 countries across Europe, the result of a cross-border project in the same period, which was disappeared in the continent, had disappeared on the continent in the same period.

The UK was among the countries that lost the rate of the highest green area compared to its geographical dimension. He ranked fifth.

Findings underlines the tensions and economic exchange between the economic gains of the environmental loss of natural capital and the economic gains of housing and industrial development and the GDP value.

By using a controlled machine learning developed by the research-nina used before and after satellite images to determine the change in land use. The investigation revealed the building scale on the beauty points, which are currently known as national landscapes in England and Wales.

Despite the restrictions on the development of these natural areas, large ways to national landscapes are taken for development.

Guardian confirmed more than 250 of the largest developments with more than 10,000 square meters; The developments of this size were under the six areas of national landscapes: Chilterns, Kent Downs, North Wessex Downs, Dorset, Cotswolds, High Weald and Shropshire Hills.

The research shows that special protections in such areas are drowning from local developments, including housing, transportation and commercial projects, as well as by national construction projects.

A large project – the controversial HS2 train line, which is seen as a vital infrastructure to connect the north and south, which would only connect London and Birmingham, are cut directly in the national view of Chilterns and clearly visible in the satellite images caught for this project.

Most of the major projects emphasized by the analysis, as well as HS2, most of the major projects poured into extraordinary natural beauty areas, the expansion of Poundbury in Dorset to the north, the development of the Lancaster park near Hungerford in Berkshire, and the new housing developments in the northeast of Fownhope. More still small rape: stables, extensions and road expansion projects.

Recent research has shown that the government has enough brown space to build almost all 1.5 million houses that the government wants to create until the end of this parliament.

Roger Mortlock, General Manager of CPRE, Roger Mortlock, said, uz We are still struggling with the idea that the land is still finite for a small island.

“Brownfield land is also unnecessary that it is not even used with planning permission.

“Instead, it takes land -hungry, automobile -dependent, identical, non -appropriate residences, food we eat, the healing of Power Nature and green areas that can offer climate solutions.”

Guardian has recently announced that the government’s new planning bill has threatened 5,000 of the most protected regions in the UK. The draft law currently passing through the Parliament is considered a decline over existing environmental laws and will allow developers to pay a central fund to skip environmental regulations on a particular site.

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