Brown can also be green
Government housing targets for 2008 require 60 per cent of new homes to be built on brownfield sites in order to protect the countryside and Green Belt from urban sprawl. But brownfield sites can be richer in biodiversity and wildlife than much of the countryside. By Peter Wilder and Sue James
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