I wonder, from the tone of the debate, how many people would guess that the green belt actually got bigger in 2021-22? 
It means the green belt is less than one per cent smaller than it was in 1997.
The population of England has risen from 48.7m to 56.7m over roughly the same period. So there's that.
Every year, at Reach, we'd alert newsrooms across the country to the fact this dataset was coming out, while gently pointing out that there was highly unlikely to be any real change & we'd probably not write about it.
They were always surprised at that.
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They were always surprised at that.
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(By the by, from the same dataset - basically a list of England's 'greenest and pleasantest" lands(!))
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