North West Green Belt
The North West Green Belt is a
Geography
Land area taken up by the belt is 247,650 hectares, 1.9% of the total land area of England (2010).[2] The main coverage of the belt is within northern Cheshire and southern Lancashire, with the Merseyside and Greater Manchester urban areas completely surrounded, and a small section extending into Derbyshire.
The belt area surrounding Macclesfield is close to the Stoke-on-Trent belt, which is considered to be independent of the North West belt. The North West belt is contiguous with the South and West Yorkshire Green Belt along the Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire county boundary. The High Peak towns of Derbyshire, Glossop, New Mills, Hadfield, Charlesworth and Whaley Bridge are all enveloped.
Small portions of separated green belt are dotted around the
See also
References
- ^ Fawcett, Tony. "Green Belts: A greener future - Campaign to Protect Rural England". Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
- ^ "Green Belts in England: Key facts - A series of factsheets on England's 14 Green Belts".
