Green belt

And we, again, sympathize and empathize with people that are just frustrated by the aggregate growth.

And so that's when potentially Greenbelt funds could come into play and say, all right, well, maybe it's not 90.

Maybe we buy down that by half.

But it's a dollar.

Going back to

our discussion about Fort Pemberton, I mean, there was some real question about whether that funding was going to happen for Fort Pemberton, because there was a concern that I think it was about six million bucks to acquire that land, whereas six million bucks could have potentially acquired much, much more land out in the more rural parts of the county.

Now, I'm very happy they did it, and I think it's very important that a significant portion of that Greenbelt money goes to urban areas because that's where our voters and our constituents live.

We need to have the ability to demonstrate that these Greenbelt funds and these tax dollars that are being used to fund it are actually translating to parks, to things that people can actually touch, feel, see, experience.

Because I guess that's an existing issue we all have where in the winter, some of, say, existing tennis courts may not be as accessible.

And particularly in areas like the Greenbelt, where actually having a paddle court with, say, a small canopy above, it's slightly lower impact and it's a good community offering.

Noise is the problem there.

Arguably, yes, it does make slightly more noise than tennis, but it is relatively low.

There's policies we touched on earlier around viability, which everybody knows that there are viability challenges at the moment, and the government is relaxing policies on viability at a national level.

Yes, I think the development industry is broadly in favour.

I know we touched on a little bit earlier about Greenbelt policies and the introduction of Greybelt.

The government acknowledged there was a hell of a lot of responses on this topic to the consultation, but This is generally from NIMBYs that don't want development to happen in locations where they live.

It's a blueprint for the development, the evolution, the management, or even the stewardship of England's capital city for the next 20 years.

It covers almost every aspect of the built and natural environments, from infrastructure to housing to Greenbelt.

It's a pretty comprehensive document.

It's very thorough.

the

largest rewiring project in London, which has secured 31 million pounds worth of funding from DEFRA and EA for the next sort of 10 to 15 years with a further 30 million being secured from the emerging local plan.

And so the two big strategic allocations in the Greenbelt and Enfield very much included and enhanced that rewilding on projects.

So it was very much, they were landscape led allocations.