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The Greenbelt sacred cow: It pens in the poor for no environmental gain

11 November 2013

Article by Paul Cheshire
While research I did in the 1980s showed that there was a small but measurable value of Greenbelts for people who lived near them, recent research by colleagues at the London School of Economics, using data on more than 1m house transactions, showed this had gone.

Thsi article was published in City AM on November 11, 2013
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SERC blog - Should we build on the Green Belt?, Henry Overman, 29 June 2013

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