I'm just 10 miles from the city, but live in a village, surrounded by farmland, much of which is greenbelt. Areas designated as greenbelt cannot be developed although increasingly, developers are being granted permission to encroach on these spaces, intended to curb urban sprawl. Through a combination of legal wrangling, under the table deals and token concessions in the interest of protecting wildlife habitats, this highly profitable land is being chipped away at.