Labour’s plans to build thousands of new homes

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Anyone else feeling dismayed at the plans announced today to build huge numbers of new homes on the “grey” belt? Why not just concrete over the UK? It’s not just the homes, it’s the infrastructure that will need to go with it that will almost certainly involve cutting down trees, spoiling natural habitats and losing more green space. Plus the boundary between grey and geeen belt will blur over time. Why can’t we put more effort into refurbishing existing properties (or just rebuilding on the same sites?). So much for refreshing, positive ideas from the new administration. Just more of the same ill thought out sound bites that make me despair for the future of the planet.

We're buying wheat at £168 a tonne was over £200 last year

We can't live on wildflowers for our food supplies!

BurntBroccoli
Plus wheat and rape every single year will have a ton of chemicals sprayed on it.
If the grass is planted up with different species of wildflowers, it will offer much more biodiversity.

"We can't live on wildflowers for our food supplies!"

Of course not!
I'm not saying that at all. We need to invest into more modern techniques for farming (and stop eating so much meat!).
Vertical farming, as already mentioned, plus AgriPhotoVoltaics as someone else has already mentioned. This combines solar with traditional agri practices:

Holland is already making good use of this and is one of the world's largest exporters despite being a relatively tiny country.

We also need to be using things like rooftops of buildings in urban centres to install solar panels.