Mr Jonathan Lord:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government,
what recent steps his Department has taken to protect the green belt from
housing developments.
Mrs Heather Wheeler:
In our National Planning Policy Framework, reissued in February 2019, we ask
local authorities to protect their Green Belts, making clear that most types of
new buildings are inappropriate there, and should be refused planning
permission. The revised Framework now also states that a local authority can
propose to alter a Green Belt boundary only in exceptional circumstances and
only if it can show that it has examined all other reasonable options for
meeting its identified development needs.
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