http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/bananas_and_football_pitches Comments for "BANANAs and football pitches" en http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/bananas_and_football_pitches <p>I hope this is the paper getting a nought in the wrong place rather than the Tories trying to scare people:</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/31/nbelt131.xml" target="_blank" title="BANANAs and football pitches">14,000 acres of Green Belt land developed - Telegraph:</a> </p> <p>Almost 14,000 acres of Green Belt land - the equivalent of 80,000 football pitches - have been lost to development since Labour came to power, figures have shown.</p> <p>Er, no.  The smallest regulation football pitch (50 yards by 100 yards) takes up just over an acre (5000 sq yards = 1.033 acres) - the largest legal pitch being 2.69 acres.  So somewhere in between might give you 8,000 pitches on 14,000 acres, but certainly not 80,000 pitches, unless perhaps they mean Subbuteo pitches!</p> <p>Stop scare mongering and help find solutions folks!</p> http://www.jockcoats.org.uk/bananas_and_football_pitches#comments Tory Housing/CLTs conservative Green Belt Media Feeds Negative Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:51:07 +0000 Jock 739 at http://www.jockcoats.org.uk