TWO SOLAR farms have been given the go-ahead by Dorset Council ... Given that this is Green Belt and needs ‘very special circumstances’ for it to be allowed I will not be supporting this ...

Councils across the UK are set to be forced to surrender parts of the green belt to achieve new government housing targets, it has been announced. The government has pledged to build 1.5 million ...

The potential targets for Labour's housebuilding drive have been laid bare in a map today ... is set to rebrand some 'lower quality' Green Belt land as 'grey belt'. Ministers claim they are ...

Mr Starmer said in his conference speech this week that Labour would build a generation of “new towns” which would involve construction on some disused land on the green belt - such as car ...

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A Cutlers Place resident said in one of the latest objections to Dorset Council over the proposal: “The Green Belt between Wimborne and Colehill must be maintained toprotect the natural environment ...