Sentence examples for greenfield land from inspiring English sources

In Harlow the Newhall extension, a bright splurge of plush family homes, sits near the M11 motorway on greenfield land.

If you want to protect nightingales and water voles, it might be better to allow building on more greenfield land.

At present, the easiest and most economically profitable development would require easing restrictions relating to building on greenfield land.

So they are likely to allocate more greenfield land for housing, leading to urban sprawl and increased road traffic.

In St Albans, a southern commuter town, the price of greenfield land with planning permission has already eclipsed its heady pre-recession levels.

Kate Gordon said: "There are a number of locations that involve the loss of greenfield land, agricultural land and would damage attractive landscapes".

But the council admits that regenerating existing sites would not provide for all the city's future needs and it will need "significant additional - primarily greenfield - land for development".

The city planner, William R. Sweeney, noted that among the many housing projects proposed in recent months, most have been on "greenfields," virgin land on the city's fringes.

"It was kind of amazing because I was finishing the work over the past year while I was watching his campaign and, then, seeing him take the highest office in the land," Greenfield recalled, "it was almost like an uncanny expression of what the work is about — proof that it was all real". .

Urban planning concerns itself with both the development of open land ("greenfields sites") and the revitalization of existing parts of the city, thereby involving goal setting, data collection and analysis, forecasting, design, strategic thinking, and public consultation.

Stroud District Council unanimously refused the housing application from the Cheshire-based greenfield specialists Gladman: a land developer "obsessed with winning consents", according to its website.