{"id":44679,"date":"2025-11-21T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44679"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:10:13","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-plans-to-turn-three-local-villages-into-town-to-help-protect-green-belt-backed-by-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44679","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Plans to turn three local villages into town to \u2018help protect green belt\u2019 backed by residents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A plan to merge three leafy local villages into a single town has been backed by residents in a bid to save swathes of countryside, reports <em>Kenilworth Nub News<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kenilworth Nub News<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scheme for Knowle, Dorridge and Bentley Heath (KDBH) to be defined as a single settlement was proposed by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council planners as a way of defending the borough\u2019s green belt. Councillors and planning officers stressed the move was purely for \u2018planning purposes\u2019 and residents would still live in their self-contained villages\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed changes matter in terms of how green belt and so-called grey belt \u2013 lower-quality green belt areas \u2013 planning policies are implemented\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kenilworth.nub.news\/news\/local-news\/plans-to-turn-three-local-villages-into-town-to-help-protect-green-belt-backed-by-residents-276349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plan to merge three leafy local villages into a single town has been backed by residents in a bid to save swathes of countryside, reports Kenilworth Nub News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,17,18,30,9,29,31,16],"class_list":["post-44679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-government","tag-heritage","tag-nature","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44680,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44679\/revisions\/44680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}