IT'S for growing food, not for parking cars" (Post, November 13). What a great headline and it just about sums up the whole green belt argument. Green Belt land, by definition, is always agricultural land.

Build on a field and it's lost to agriculture forever and that increases the nation's carbon footprint. The green fields around the edge of Bristol are pasture grazed by cows producing a range of dairy products which then have to be imported from abroad once those fields are built upon. How does that make Bristol a Green City of European stature?

The Stoke Lane allotment campaigners should also be aware that 2,000 houses are to be built on the opposite side of the M32, as well as the park and ride.

Though that will be a South Gloucs decision, it's still a part of the West of England Partnership/Regional Development Agency/Regional Spatial Strategy programme. It's all being announced piecemeal in the hope no-one notices the enormity of the whole package.

For example, the recently published aerial view of the development land for the new Bristol City FC stadium forgot to point out that the green fields beyond were also to be built over – that's the site of North Somerset's Yanley proposals for 10,000 houses, to be revealed to the public in more detail later this month.

Green belt campaigners all around Bristol are now starting to get organised.

Apparently, the Government Office for the South West was surprised to get 35,000 responses to its consultation about the Regional Spatial Strategy and is, even now, trying to work out how to publish them all as it had previously promised.

It doesn't matter which city or district council you live in, whether you think you are directly affected by green belt issues or not, our affiliated groups are out to do just what it says on the label – save our green spaces, all of them – including in Eastville. ( "Who gave park trees the chop"(Post, November 13).

We all know what planning application will follow that particular escapade and at £1,000,000 per acre they can afford any financial penalty the council imposes. This government will back housing developers all the way, just ask your MP.

If your group wants to get involved, or simply keep in touch, you can contact the network via www.saveourgreenspaces.org

Ron Morton, Chair, Shortwood Green Belt Campaign.