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Research by the Guardian and the Campaign to Protect Rural England shows at least 10,000 acres of greenbelt land are likely to be sacrificed to build some of the biggest developments in Britain in the past 30 years.

The research identifies major erosion of the greenbelt in many areas:

· Bath, York, Oxford and Cambridge universities want to release large amounts of greenbelt land which they own.

full article at http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2031755,00.html