READING Bryan Billau’s letter (July 22) I reckon he makes an unintentional case in support of the Save Grange Fields campaign.
In other words, it is true, all towns and cities need a significant proportion of area left natural and not built on.
This should include a wide variety of green spaces including parks, rivers, allotments, house gardens, and impinging pieces of wilderness.
This is precisely the point in the Grange Fields setting and it is so important to note the diversity of reasons why it is designated an Area of Outstanding Beauty.
It therefore makes practical sense in a complex and cherished landscape such as Stroud’s to consider very carefully where buildings such as housing are located.
Teresa Vance’s original letter (July 8) was emotional but not wrong in essence.
More of concern is the repeated titling of these letters as ‘urbanisation’.
This is a technical concept in geography referring to the change in proportion of population living in urban areas such as towns and cities.
Stroud’s pockets of expansion or growth bear little or no relation to urbanisation in the UK.
Nick James
Cainscross
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