Would a Socialist society keep the Green Belt rules in Britain?

[blackandyellow]

In Britain there is a rule that you cant build on, or its very hard to gain permission to, to build on areas of the country designated as "Green Belt".

The Conservative party has been trying to change the rules around this, so that more areas in the countryside can be built on (typical tory supply side economics). This has caused great uproar amongst the usual right wing Tory rural voters. I havnet heard many opinions from the left on it (Probably because its not a pressing issue for workers whether or not some rural middle england village has a new supermarket built near it, so Im not attacking the left)

But this has left me wondering whether or socialism would keep this sort of Green belt stuff? To me it seems to really entrench the division between the town and countryside.

Opinions please.

[Blake's Baby]

We want to break down divisions betweeen town and country; but if you mean 'would a socialist society have rules about what can be built where' then yeah of course it would. I very much doubt however that it would have anything that resembled either Green-belt legislation, or the state that enforces it, or the judicial system that rules on it.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I think it would be up to the people of the country, and I imagine the people of Britain would massively support the continuation of green belt rules, though i'd imagine due to population expansion they would have to be modified somewhat.

It's important that any expansion of urban areas is as organic as possible, so we are expanding Greater London and Greater Manchester, rather than building 'new' towns/cities on our beautiful green land.

Some of England is extremely underrated, in terms of its aesthetic beauty.

[Volcanicity]

There'll be quite a few empty royal palaces and stately homes that'll need filling before there'll be a need to worry about building on the green-belt.

Not to mention filling houses that are left empty for long periods through people with money to burn buying second homes in the country and then only using them a few weeks a year as a holiday bolt-hole.

Though this is probably a separate issue.