Brownfield sites must be protected

WHILST READING THE RECENT opinion piece by Mark Carwardine (November 2021) on why new houses should not be built on greenbelt land, I was in total agreement with the importance of greenbelt land for biodiversity.

However, Mark mentioned that 1.3 million new homes could be built on brownfield sites in England alone. This suggests that brownfield sites are of less biodiversity value and lumps them all together into one category, which I don’t believe to be the case.

I have fond memories of spending the school summer holidays volunteering at a brownfield site called