The recent "clarification" that gardens are not regarded as previously developed land, and are therefore not brown field sites as far as planning policy is concerned raises some interesting question about trade-offs.
In this quite(ish) corner of commuterland (SW Surrey to be particular) there is a crying need for affordable housing. One of the few resources available without resorting to special case circumstances enabling annexation of Green Belt has been garden use. This brings with it a degree of urbanisation (inevitably) and we lose whatever ecological benefit the garden was providing. But is this an optimal outcome? We are faced with losing our allotments in this village because the landowner now sees the opportunity to develop. A conundrum!!
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