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 ...

It's currently really difficult to build on green belt land, as a developer must prove "very special circumstances" to be given planning permission. A map of green belt land in England.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Dorset Council officers told the eastern area planning committee at a meeting in Wimborne on Wednesday the store should be rejected because of the damage to the green belt. Lidl's regional head of ...

Land promoter Richborough is working with landowners to get permissions or allocations on around 60 green belt sites – that’s about a third of its pipeline of work. So, with the new Labour government ...