{"id":58062,"date":"2019-06-04T11:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T10:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=58062"},"modified":"2019-06-04T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T10:44:00","slug":"manchester-green-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/manchester-green-belt\/58062\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester tops land use table to develop a third of its green belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Manchester has become the first city in England to develop more than a third of its Green Belt,\u00a0analysis of new figures by modular homes developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectetopia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Etopia<\/a> reveals<\/h2>\n<p>The Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistical-data-sets\/live-tables-on-land-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published detailed development breakdowns<\/a> for Green Belts for 185 local authority areas for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of the data reveals that 34.3% of Manchester\u2019s Green Belt has already been developed. But nationally it is striking how little Green Belt development is due to housebuilding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/manchester-housing-transport\/50627\/\">In Manchester<\/a> \u2014 which compares unfavourably with a national average of 8.4% Green Belt development \u2014 the proportion given over to residential is just 0.1%. A huge chunk of the city\u2019s Green Belt (28.2%) is occupied by transport and utilities \u2014 more than double any other area.<\/p>\n<p>The average proportion developed among England\u2019s major cities excluding Manchester is even lower than the national average at 7.4%.<\/p>\n<p>However, the largest proportion of residential development is the 2.7% recorded in Mid Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>The figures highlight for the first time how residential developments represent a relatively small source of development. The average proportion taken up by residential development across England is 0.28%, compared with 4.6% occupied by transport and utilities.<\/p>\n<p><em>This table shows the 10 towns and cities with the highest proportion of development (excluding London):<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Place<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>% of Green Belt Developed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Manchester<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>34.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Wolverhampton<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>27.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Blackpool<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>23.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Cambridge<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Coventry<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>13.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Tamworth<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>13.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Salford<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>12.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Luton<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>12.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Bristol<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>12.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Worcester<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>12.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>This table shows the 10 towns and cities with the lowest proportion of development:<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Place<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>% of Belt Developed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Preston<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Liverpool<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Lancaster<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Rochford<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>3.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Harrogate<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>3.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Southend-on-Sea<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>3.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Blackburn<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Bath<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Stafford<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Bradford<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Daniels, CEO of Project Etopia, commented: \u201cThe country faces a huge dilemma when it comes to where it builds the huge backlog of homes it needs but the most major threats to Green Belt are not presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/tfl-crossrail-infrastructure\/57588\/\">residential developments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat these figures show is that there are huge opportunities to use sites that are already developed where provision of homes within Green Belts is truly unavoidable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is surprising is the range in outcomes nationally. Different areas are resorting to developing the Green Belt to hugely varying degrees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis may indicate a more strategic approach at a national level is required. One answer may be to accelerate plans for new towns to ensure housing need isn\u2019t a burden placed solely on the shoulders of those towns and cities that already exist in the expectation they can grow indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester has become the first city in England to develop more than a third of its Green Belt,\u00a0analysis of new figures by Project Etopia reveals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[676,672,572,17747,952],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-green-belt","9":"tag-housebuilding","10":"tag-manchester","11":"tag-planning"},"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>Manchester tops land use table to develop a third of its green belt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manchester has become the first city in England to develop more than a third of its Green Belt,\u00a0analysis of new figures by Project Etopia reveals\" \/>\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\/manchester-green-belt\/58062\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Manchester tops land use table to develop over a third of its green belt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manchester has developed more than a third of its Green Belt\u2014 the first place in England to do so, analysis of new figures by modular homes developer Project Etopia reveals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/manchester-green-belt\/58062\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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