Green fields and farmland in the green belt are being reclassified as “grey belt” to build homes in an apparent breach of ...

Despite neighbour comments being much more decisive - 21 for and 216 against - and another plan being refused in January 2024, planning officers had recommended approval ahead of the meeting. This ...

As the grey belt will be a new category, there is no official data on how much of it exists. However, estate agent Knight Frank has previously carried out its own analysis, external.. It has ...

Story Homes is planning to redevelop around 23 acres on the western fringe of the village into a “well-considered extension” ...

What is the 'grey belt'? Grey belt isn’t actually an official term. It was coined by Labour in April as part of a housing policy announcement. But now the party is in power, grey belt will essentially ...

It was in this revised NPPF that the term ‘grey belt’ was first introduced. Grey belt is previously developed land, and/or land which doesn’t contribute strongly to green belt purposes. Using grey ...

Plans for up to 270 homes can now go ahead after an appeal where the inspector found the nearby settlement was a village, and not, as the local authority claimed, a “large built up area” or town.

The Grey Belt is only part of the solution. In meeting the government’s ambitious housing targets, which Keir Starmer himself has said is an ‘almighty challenge’, building on the existing Green Belt ...

Welcomed by developers but criticised by the House of Lords Select Committee, the Labour government’s new grey belt policy has divided opinion. Partner at Weightmans, John Gregory examines what the ...

As the grey belt will be a new category, there is no official data on how much of it exists. However, estate agent Knight Frank has previously carried out its own analysis.. It has identified ...

Labour has announced plans to build on the "grey belt", as it tries to meet its pledge for 1.5 million homes.