{"id":295776,"date":"2025-07-27T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295776\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:48:13","slug":"handsworth-campaigners-protest-to-save-sheffield-green-belt-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295776\/","title":{"rendered":"Handsworth campaigners protest to save Sheffield green belt land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow campaigner Sue Smelt said much of the area&#8217;s green space would be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a lovely little oasis that&#8217;s surrounded by housing estates already,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;S13 is a densely populated area and whilst we&#8217;re not disputing that people need somewhere to live, we don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate that 44% of all the new houses will be built on our green belt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheffield City Council leader Tom Hunt previously said the homes were needed to &#8220;tackle the housing crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council added that greenbelt land would only be considered because there were no suitable brownfield sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The consultation period on the plans has ended and a decision is expected later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fellow campaigner Sue Smelt said much of the area&#8217;s green space would be destroyed. &#8220;This is a lovely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-295776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114925043971948116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}