Letter: Green belt policy needs re-designing.

(From Nottingham Evening Post)

Congratulations are due to Mr Nat Puri and his architect Julian Marsh for throwing the inequity of modern planning policy into sharp relief by gaining planning permission for a well designed house in the green belt I have recently had to explain to a couple of my own clients that the local authority will not allow them to add a very small conservatory to the back of their home, even though their entire site is completely concealed behind a thick swath of trees.

This because it is in the green belt and would take the total size of the house to over 150% of the original building standing there in 1948. This is an interpretation …