WI: Britain Didn't Implement Green Belts

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In 1947, in an attempt to stop the continuous outward growth of London and Britain's other metros, the government implemented Green Belts
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What it does is designate rings around cities where new residential, commercial, and industrial development is off limits in an attempt to preserve pristine land for agriculture and recreation.

But it has caused a housing shortage in London is resulted in sprawl beyond the green belt. And the reasoning behind it is faulty. It's unlikely that London would have expanded to cover all of Britain if it hadn't been implemented.

So what if hadn't been implemented and Britain's cities were allowed to just keep growing out?
 
Weaker real estate bubble, which means weaker upper-middle class and a UK with politics less ah americanized than OTL. Incidently, without americans noticing green belts to get inspired with NIMBY, likely a similar effect in the US.
 

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Weaker real estate bubble, which means weaker upper-middle class and a UK with politics less ah americanized than OTL. Incidently, without americans noticing green belts to get inspired with NIMBY, likely a similar effect in the US.
The green belt idea had been around long before 1947, and in fact, Britain was inspired by the green belt policy of Paris. And NIMBYism takes many other forms besides green belts.
 

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For one thing the Northern Heights plan for the Northern Line would almost certainly get completed.
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I really wish it was completed.
 
No Greenbelts? Why, then there us nothing to stop the spread of Brutalist Projects creeping ever outwards....
 
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