It was interesting to read in your article “Is the greenbelt up for grabs?” (House & Home, FT Weekend, January 27) how developers prefer greenfield over brownfield sites. It’s cheaper for developers to build on greenfield and therefore increases their profits.
Here in Suffolk, National Grid is looking to dig and tunnel through the Suffolk “heritage coast”, bringing cables from offshore wind turbines on to greenfield land, building massive onshore connectors in Saxmundham, Friston and between Thorpeness and Aldeburgh. National Grid will not disclose whether they have even looked at brownfield options.
As one of the most nature-depleted countries we should at all costs be protecting what nature we have left.
I know we need to have energy security, and house building but we also need nature and food security and should not be building on agricultural land and greenfield.
Kim Monfared
Snape, Suffolk, UK
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