{"id":47730,"date":"2018-10-04T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=47730"},"modified":"2018-10-04T14:22:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:22:02","slug":"green-belt-land-increase-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/green-belt-land-increase-housing\/47730\/","title":{"rendered":"New gov data shows increase of green belt land released for housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A recent analysis of new government data by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has shown the largest increase of green belt land which has been released to use for housebuilding<\/h2>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Housing, Communities &amp; Local Government, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/green-belt-statistics\">Green Belt Statistics,\u00a0<\/a>data shows that since 2012, 10,000 hectares of green belt land have been released from \u2018protected\u2019 green belt boundaries by local councils.<\/p>\n<p>It is has been discovered that ten councils have together released more than 5,000 hectares in the past year alone.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners to protect rural England blame the consistent erosion of the green Belt to a combination of unrealistic housing targets set by the government, a lacking capacity for house building and slow build rates on land already granted.<\/p>\n<p>With green belt land located near major towns cities, surrounded by the countryside and &#8216;shovel ready&#8217;, the land is very much desired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/housebuilders-costs-respond-workload\/43747\/\">housebuilders<\/a> who see great potential in the areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpre.org.uk\/\">CPRE<\/a> has said that national planning rules constantly demand housing targets that housebuilders and developers are failing to meet. This in turn, has resulted in councils allowing for more and more green belt land to be released to try and fix the short fall.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Rebecca Pullinger, Planning Campaigner at the Campaign to Protect Rural England, said<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\">: &#8220;<\/span><\/strong>National planning rules require local councils to show exceptional circumstances when they remove land from the green belt. These statistics illustrate that since 2012, such changes are no longer exceptional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For too long housebuilders have been able to use land as a tool to manipulate and monopolise the market only to serve their own interests. The Government must stop heaping pressure on councils to deliver unrealistic targets that result in the green belt being chipped away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead, developers should be held more accountable to deliver the homes that they have promised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Building within or on land released from the green belt is not the solution: it results in low density, unaffordable homes out of reach of those who desperately need to get a foot on the ladder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These new figures back up conclusions made by the CPRE\u2019s <span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><em>State of the green belt 2018 <\/em><\/span>report, published in August this year which showed that the planned loss of green belt is continuing to increase at an alarming rate.<\/p>\n<p>The report continued to state that overall there are currently 460,000 homes being planned to be built on land that is set to be released from the green belt, of which 78% would be unaffordable by the Government\u2019s definition.<\/p>\n<p>CPRE is calling on the Government to follow through on its commitment to protect the green belt and develop clear guidance for local authorities on housing requirements to protect designated land.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent analysis of new government data by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has shown the largest increase of Green Belt land which has been released to build more houses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[666,734,676,905,672,571,656],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-brownfield","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-cpre","11":"tag-green-belt","12":"tag-housing-crisis","13":"tag-housing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New gov data shows increase of green belt land released for housing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A recent analysis of new government data by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has shown the largest increase of Green Belt land which has been released to build more houses.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/green-belt-land-increase-housing\/47730\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New gov data shows increase of green belt land released for housing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A recent analysis of new government data by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has shown the largest increase of Green Belt land which has been released to build more houses.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/green-belt-land-increase-housing\/47730\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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