Thoughts while away

 

It's been a warm week while I've been away - more about on Monday on the other blog - but paused near the River Lune near Lancaster you are struck by how in North Lancashire much of the natural beauty has been preserved given the urban nature of Carnforth, Warton and Lancaster rather than the sprawling nature of the Manchester area or the damage in my own area of North Staffordshire from insensative uncontrolled development.

Much of this area is in an Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is stunning visually and also in terms of the wildlife it helps support which shows, when supported we need not lose as much open countryside as happened elsewhere.

That's what concerns me with new government's planned planning restrictions in the so called grey belt.

People even in the more built up areas like here need gaps, green spaces for our well-being nevermind improving conditions around which many of us live.