Preserving a “green belt” of countryside around urban areas helps keep cities cool during the hottest times of the year, suggesting that new UK plans to build on currently unoccupied land ...

It is part of the wider West Midlands Green Belt, which forms a ring around the large urban towns and cities of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, the Black Country, Coventry and Solihull and is the ...

A green belt is an area of open land around a city, on which development is restricted. It is used to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding urban areas.