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Designated areas of green belt in England; the Metropolitan Green Belt outlined in red. In British town planning, the green belt is a policy for controlling urban growth.The term, coined by Octavia Hill in 1875, [1] [2] refers to a ring of countryside where urbanisation will be resisted for the foreseeable future, maintaining an area where local food growing, forestry and outdoor leisure can ...
The conservation charity says Angela Rayner’s push to speed up home building could taint urban ‘oases’ of greenery
States the general intentions of Green Belt policy, including its contribution to sustainable development objectives; Reaffirms the specific purposes of including land in Green Belts, with slight modifications, gives policy a more positive thrust by specifying for the first time objectives for the use of land in Green Belts
The Lyons Housing Review was a UK public policy review on Housing initiated by the Labour Party Leader (and then Leader of Opposition) Ed Miliband. Ed Miliband announced the creation of the Housing Commission at Labour Party Conference 2013 and appointed Sir Michael Lyons to lead.
Since coming to power in July, the Labour government has said it wants to build 1.5 million homes over the next five years and has identified "poor quality" green belt land as possible areas of ...
Labour leader says his party will build 1.5 million homes in five years and vowes to crack down on nimby MPs who try to block developments in their constituencies
The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) is a land-use planning policy in England. It was originally published by the UK's Department of Communities and Local Government in March 2012, consolidating over two dozen previously issued documents called Planning Policy Statements (PPS) and Planning Policy Guidance Notes (PPG) for use in England ...
Sir Keir Starmer used a speech to warn that a Labour administration will not be able to ‘turn on the spending taps’. Labour’s £28bn green plans subject to fiscal rules, says Starmer Skip to ...