We the undersigned call on Wokingham Borough Council to do everything in its power to protect the beautiful and valuable greenbelt around Ruscombe from inappropriate development.

If developers go ahead and build on the greenbelt it will cause unprecedented traffic chaos, levels of strain on public and local services, destroy much loved historical countryside and blight the local area with urban sprawl and overcrowding. Local communities will be lost as they merge into towns and our area's rural land will be lost for ever for future generations.

The Government states that brownfield and small sites are built on first before even considering the destruction of the greenbelt. Building on greenbelt contravenes protected status and we call on Wokingham Borough Council to uphold Government policy.