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.

A green belt is an area of open land around a city, on which development is restricted. It is used to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding urban areas.

Green Belt What is the Green Belt? The Green Belt is an area of land protected from development. According to the 2019 National Planning Policy Framework, the Green Belt serves five purposes: to ...

Residents have sounded the alarm over the pressure up to 190 new homes could have on their town. Plans have been put forward ...

The area, which once housed the village cricket pitch, was one of the green belt areas allocated for housing development when Bury Council adopted the Places for Everyone (PfE) masterplan, along ...

Plans for up to 190 new homes that could be built on the edge of a Surrey village have been submitted. The proposed development which sits on green belt land also includes a care home with up to 80 ...

Campaigners against building houses on a slice of Green Belt in South Tyneside have vowed their voices will be heard when a ...

Besides, no construction would be allowed in the green belt area, except for ponds, temples and temporary shelters, for which prior permission from the competent authority will be required.

More than 5,000 objections have been raised against plans to develop a Wigan community’s last area of green belt.