And The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Newly built Mere End Cottage has to be completely destroyed and removed within four months.
According to the planning committee in Chesire,UK, a breach of planning rules means that a $4 million home, surrounded by two acres of land with a double garage and boat house on the grounds, must be removed.
Permission had already been granted for a cottage on the site to be replaced by a bigger home, but the developers allegedly failed to adhere to the plans.
The developers were going back to the planning committee on a deal to approve the project and the demolition order would be contested.
This is part of the UK's Green Belt Policy which is for controlling urban growth. The idea is for a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted for the foreseeable future, maintaining an area where agriculture, forestry and outdoor leisure can be expected to prevail. The fundamental aim of green belt policy is to prevent urban sprawl by keeping land permanently open, and consequently the most important attribute of green belts is their openness.
Over here in the US it is called Smart Growth. Portland's Smart Growth restrictions have changed one the nation’s most affordable markets for single-family housing in 1989 to one of the least affordable since 1996.
Portland has more traffic delay than Tampa-St. Petersburg and St. Louis, and the worst traffic congestion of any metropolitan area its size, despite its extravagant spending on transit. Portland has managed to experience the greatest increase in traffic congestion of any major urban area in the nation.
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Posted By: Joe on Friday, May 16, 2008
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