Its green belt, which restricts building in countryside close to the city, is strangling industrial and housing development.
Since the plans means building on green belt land, it will be referred to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.
For the next 7 minutes, video images of Ralph Lauren clad models strutted along the balconies, a giant green belt wrapped itself around the building and polo horses galloped across the facade.
George Osborne, the chancellor, has hinted that councils should be more willing to allow building on green-belt land.
Abolish planning restrictions far more than has been done and be much less worried about building on the Green Belt.
The council will not allow building on the green belt up to 2016 but accepts it will need to review that post-2016.
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The council's housing proposals for the next 15 years had avoided building on the green belt - although some greenfield sites had been identified.
My dad was an engineer and I spent countless hours tinkering with him on the DIY projects he had going on around our house, from using an oscilloscope and hand tools, to being allowed to drive the tractor, learning how to set spark plugs and change a timing belt, swapping out alternators, building a computer and soldering circuit paths on to an early motherboard .
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Council proposals now include building hundreds of houses on green belt land in Bath, Whitchurch and Keynsham.
The neighborhood where the building collapsed was part of a belt of more than 2, 000 illegal structures that had sprung up in the area in recent years, said Mr. Malvi, the municipal spokesman.
As a result, the family uses a small tractor or a conveyor belt from the valley floor to get everything from groceries to building materials up to the castle.
In 1935 London's regional planners proposed the Metropolitan Green Belt and the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act encouraged local authorities to protect the land around towns and cities from building.
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