Some 12.6 per cent (1,638,420 hectares) of the land area of England is green belt, according to the most recent figures available from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.

Angela Rayner is set to allow construction on an area of Green Belt cumulatively larger than Surrey to meet Labour's target of getting 1.5million homes built by 2029. The Housing Secretary will ...

A proposal for land between Horsham and Crawley to be designated as West Sussex's first green belt area is being considered. Horsham District councillor John Milne made the announcement at a ...

A map of green belt land in England. Credit: Campaign to Protect Rural England Green belt land covers around 12.6% of England's land area, amounting to 6,326 square miles at the end of March 2023.

Labour would give local areas the power to build houses on the green belt where development would not take away from the beauty of the countryside, the party leader has said.. Sir Keir Starmer ...

Angela Rayner 'will clear area of Green Belt the size of SURREY' for building by designating it as 'grey belt' rather than countryside claiming there is no alternative to get new 1.5m homes.