The ungreening of England: Burton area.
\nSlowly, slowly and then fastly fastly the countryside surrounding our towns is being eaten up by \u2018the concrete monster of progress\u2019. Here\u2019s a local example; based on Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 mapping and a variety of sources, I give you a sketch map showing recent and future \u2018development\u2019 in the Burton area.<\/p>\n
Updated with orange!<\/p>\n
Recent & future development in Burton area v10<\/a><\/p>\n Key:- The ungreening of England: Burton area. Slowly, slowly and then fastly fastly the countryside surrounding our towns is being eaten up by \u2018the concrete monster of progress\u2019. Here\u2019s a local example; based on Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 mapping and a variety of sources, I give you a sketch map showing recent and future \u2018development\u2019 in the … Continue reading The ungreening of England – Burton upon Trent – update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.watsonlv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYellow \u2013 mostly housing (about 12,200 units)
\nBlack \u2013 failed housing applications
\nSolid green \u2013 the so-called Rolleston \/ Stretton \u2018Green Gap\u2019 (not Green Belt)
\nGreen enclosed area \u2013 South Derbyshire Green Belt against the Staffordshire border
\nVertical green stripes \u2013 Burton Green belt(!)
\nOrange \/ orange strips – area of high quality landscape
\nOblique green stripes \u2013 amenities areas
\nBrown \u2013 mainly commercial
\nEnclosed area north of town centre \u2013 proposed Derby Road \u2018gateway\u2019 improvement scheme (housing, commercial and amenities)
\nCrimson \u2013 gravel quarrying
\nGreen line \u2013 possible route of A514 connecting road (A38 to A50 nr Derby).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"