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I hope this is the paper getting a nought in the wrong place rather than the Tories trying to scare people:14,000 acres of Green Belt land developed - Telegraph:
Almost 14,000 acres of Green Belt land - the equivalent of 80,000 football pitches - have been lost to development since Labour came to power, figures have shown.
Er, no. The smallest regulation football pitch (50 yards by 100 yards) takes up just over an acre (5000 sq yards = 1.033 acres) - the largest legal pitch being 2.69 acres. So somewhere in between might give you 8,000 pitches on 14,000 acres, but certainly not 80,000 pitches, unless perhaps they mean Subbuteo pitches!
Stop scare mongering and help find solutions folks!
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