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Winter 2019 Newsletter Download Standing up for Hertfordshire’s Countryside WWW.CPREHERTS.ORG.UK I’ve become more and more interest- ed in climate change since the arrival of my youngest grandchild three years ago. With the UK’s target (set out in an Act of Parliament) of being “carbon neutral” by 2050, I’ll have shuffled off this mortal coil long be- fore that (I’d be 100 in that year) but my granddaughter will be on earth throughout the remainder of the twenty first century, all things being equal. I am not alone in my age bracket ei- ther. I go to meetings with CPRE members from around the country from time to time. Most have the white hair that I see when I look in a mirror. All put climate change at the top of the agenda of topics that we should be looking at. The noise that the members of Extinction Rebellion have made has caused interest in climate change to increase. Earlier this year opinion pollsters found that more than 90% of people were interest- ed in climate change, with over 50% very interested. I hear, see and read quite a bit about climate change, with two reports having come out recently. One of these was on including aircraft and shipping emissions in the UK’s total and the other on how the seas are getting warmer than the scientists had thought possible, with the adverse impact on the ice sheets at the North and South Poles. A reminder: a consultation about expanding capacity at Luton Air- port is open until 16 December 2019. There is no such thing as a zero emission aeroplane. This expansion is exactly what we do not need. What I didn’t know until I was pointed to the web site of the De- partment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was the size of the problem. There I found the provisional figures for green- house gas emissions for the end of 2018. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions make up 80% of the total. The total CO2 emissions in 2018 was 361 million tons. The transport sector is the largest contributor to the total and the emissions from this sec- tor are going up. It seems that our insatiable appetite for buying things online is causing the number of petrol and diesel powered white vans to increase in number (there isn’t a competitive battery powered electric van on the market yet). Cont. ……... Please help support us by purchasing our merchandise. All prof- its from every sale go towards helping us fund the work we do. Additionally, if you send Christmas or general greetings cards or give our calendar as a gift you will also be raising the profile of CPRE Hertfordshire as our details are printed on each and every one. CPRE Hertfordshire 2020 Calendar An order form is enclosed with Hertfordshire’s this newsletter or you can Countryside Under download one from the web- Threat site: www.cpreherts.org.uk/shop Thank you. 2 WWW.CPREHERTS.ORG.UK Our homes emit in excess of 60 million tons of CO2 a year. There are somewhere of the order of 22 million homes in this country and about 80% of CPRE is publishing “Space to breathe - A State of them can be connected to the gas mains. the Green Belt Report”. The title is self- explanatory. The main findings of the far-reaching The vast majority of homes in this country leak report are:- heat. The standard of thermal insulation has in- creased over the years and many homes have dou- Only one in ten new homes built on Green ble-glazing. However, the building standards that Belt land is affordable builders must adhere to for every new build and There are proposals for a further 266,000 extension are not strong enough. homes to be built on undeveloped Green Belt The government is talking about stopping the fit- in advanced local plans ting of gas central heating boilers to new homes by The average density of homes within the 2025. It is vital by that point that these new Green Belt is 14 dwellings per hectare com- homes don’t leak any heat as keeping warm using pared with an average of 31 outside designat- electricity is somewhere between two and three ed Green Belt areas times as expensive as using gas. The figures show that building on the Green New homes will be fitted with heat pumps. These, Belt is not the answer to the housing crisis with much more thermal insulation, will keep us The report reiterates the CPRE call for a snug during the coldest weather. The trouble today “Brownfield First” policy to be enforced is that far too few builders have the skilled work- We are reminded that the National Planning Policy force to do the necessary work. Framework (NPPF) states that, in preparing local Within CPRE we are working on our strategy for plans, land should only be released from the Green dealing with climate change. At the heart of this, Belt “in exceptional circumstances”. It finds that I am sure, is the inappropriateness of the current the bar for exceptional circumstances is set too planning system. This puts “sustainable develop- low by many planning authorities. ment” ahead of any other consideration. This must change so that the avoidance of climate change is None of this is new to us in Hertfordshire. While at the front, together with meeting housing need our planning authorities are planning massive re- rather than demand. moval of land from the Green Belt there is lip ser- vice, if that, to “exceptional circumstances”, with If you would like to know more, I am happy to talk most not attempting to set out what these are. to groups about climate change and what it means Where a planning authority has tried to minimise for how we live. the loss of Green Belt, they have been criticised by the Inspector examining their plan. Green Belt is a Finally, and on a separate matter, CPRE, the na- major feature of land in Hertfordshire and has pro- tional charity, with colleagues from across the vided protection for our cherished countryside branch network, has worked on a new brand iden- since the policy was introduced. Not any more! tity. You can see the new National charity logo on page 12. We will move to our, CPRE Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire is in the front line of the assault on version very, very soon. The new logo is much the Green Belt and a major part of our efforts is brighter and more modern than the old one and we spent on trying to persuade planning authorities to identify ourselves as “the countryside charity” reduce the planned loss of it. The figures are now, not that we’ve stopped standing up for the daunting. 73,000 of the 100,000 homes in the countryside, we do that as our main activity. We Hertfordshire local plans are destined for the do much more though and it is the promotion and Green Belt. “Space to Breathe” is a timely clarion celebration of the countryside that we think will call warning of what is happening to our much- grab the attention of all those who don’t know loved and hitherto protected countryside. who we are or what we do. Our members have generously responded to our previous appeals for funds, which has enabled us to fight for our countryside throughout the local plan process, and in particular our input on the pub- lic inquiries, the “Examinations in Public” of the plans. However, this work goes on and we have to continue to participate in and respond to these “EiPs”, particularly, as has happened, where the inspector has demanded more development and has insti- tuted a “Call for Sites”. This is asking landowners and developers to provide more land for devel- opment, inevitably often Green Belt. The process is therefore taking longer than was reasonably expected and we have to continue to have a presence at the extended EiPs to put our case. Unfortunately this will cost a lot of money, we estimate at least £500 a day, providing professional help to back up our hard working in-house team. With three EiPs coming up in the near future, we think that we need at least £5,000. If you are able to help us cover these costs to enable us to carry on this vital work please complete the form enclosed or visit our website. Many thanks for your continued support. WWW.CPREHERTS.ORG.UK 3 The Government published ‘Advice’ on 22 July on ‘the role of the Green Belt in the planning system’. From that description you might be forgiven for thinking the Government had tried to resolve the various anomalies in statements and national policy for the Green Belt, particularly since the NPPF was updated in 2018. But no, the ‘advice’ is limited to three paragraphs on the following points: The factors that can be taken into account (by Councils) when considering the potential impact of development on the openness of the Green Belt. ‘These include, but are not limited to’: Both the spatial and visual aspects of openness, meaning visual impact may be relevant, as could the proposal’s volume; The duration of the development and its ‘remediability’, including provisions to return land to its ‘original’ state or at least equivalent openness; and The ‘degree’ of likely activity generated, such as traffic. How ‘plans’ (presumed to mean local plans and other policy documents) might set out ways in which the impact of removing land from the Green Belt can be offset by ‘compensatory improvements to the environmental quality and accessibility of the remaining Green Belt’.
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