Today, the government will lay out its controversial plan to tackle the housing crisis by forcing councils to prioritise house-building on "ugly" parts of green-belt land. Deputy prime minister ...

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are planning a house building blitz, including asking councils to review green belt land, in their first days in office if Labour wins power on July 4th.

Under the new plans some of the green belt, which was established to protect some areas of land from "urban sprawl", will now be redefined as "grey belt" if it's "lower quality" land. The ...

Yet, besides being his first major initiative, Sir Keir Starmer's plans to build on the green belt are likely to prove his first big blunder. For they are already deeply unpopular even among ...

Trumpington Meadows has been credited as a positive example of building a development on the green belt The government has announced a plan to reclassify some low-quality green belt land to ...

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 ...

Unprecedented housebuilding targets would much reduce Bromsgrove's green belt, councillors have warned. Under the new Labour government's proposals, the district would be expected to deliver 704 ...