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How long before the belt buckles?
A study says developers could build on 'low grade' agricultural land to meet housing needs, but what does this mean to the commuter's green and pleasant pastures...
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Residents fear for beauty spot
People living near an unspoiled moorland beauty spot say plans for a stable would set a dangerous precedent for developing the land... Read Article »
Blow to green belt defenders
The borough's green and pleasant hills could be lost if the Government presses ahead with plans to build thousands of new homes... Read Article »
- Land auctions increase as farmers try to beat capital gains tax deadline
- Agency confident of increase in land values
- Villagers oppose composting plant
- Housing developers eye up Wirral green belt site
- Thumbs up for homes scheme
- Greenbelt may be developed
2008
- Greenbelt land safe - for now
- Charity 'selling' greenbelt land
- Housing market: the facts and the myths
- Plans for greenbelt spark anger
- Greenbelt land targeted in housebuilding push
- National Trust pays £1m for greenbelt fields
- Government presses ahead with planning shake-up
- National Trust in houses land row
- Quango accused of failing to protect green belt
- Houses 'must be built on greenbelt'
- House plans 'will hit green belt'
- Fears growing of green belt confrontation
- Residents fear develpoment in Bolton countryside
- Britain's gardens under threat
- Build on the green belt, and build now
- Reform of planning rules 'vital' to meet growth in demand
- Former policymaker says housing affordability "critical"
- Appeal over greenbelt homes in Guildford
- Woodland plot to go under the hammer
- Green belt faces home 'onslaught'
- 10,000 acres of greenbelt under threat
- From rundown land to an £11bn part of oil firm's dash for housing
- Land Price Boom
- Hospital site goes on market
- 'Don't take land out of green belt'
- Green Belt should be abolished
- Hospital road to cross greenbelt
2007
2006
- Why green fields could be buried by tide of tarmac
- Brown's economist calls for homes and shops to be built on the green belt
- Green belt under threat in planning law shake-up
- Wycombe must build 6,600 homes
- Trust 'can't see the wood for the trees'
- So will the Green Belt be next?
- Battle lines are drawn
- Housing vision is no threat to campaign
- Plans for 105 affordable homes on green belt
- Battle lines are drawn Part II
- Save our village
- Planning rules quagmire that stifles development in Britain
- Joint protest over homes scheme
- Brits need 70,000 more homes
- Britain's phantom housing boom
- Massive development for Crawley after govt overrule
- Room for 1 million new homes on brownfield land
- Hotel lobby
- Prescott Jr profits from father's land boom
- Farmers cross the sea for cheaper land
- Townies set their sights on farmland
- Farmland demand sends prices soaring
- Councils 'eating into green belt'
- New Homes Plans
- Housing threat to green belt land
- 12,000 new homes for Dacorum
- Oxford Green Belt under threat
- Build more homes or I put up council tax, warns Kelly
- Build now, pay later
- Barker to Call for More Responsive U.K. Urban Planning System
- Green Belt under threat from housing plan
- Pressure on the Green Belt
- New developments - Green Belt will have to go to fit in 10,000 new homes
- Government 'must act' to prevent 'garden-grabs'
- Not strictly for the birds
- Redwood's 150,000 homes on Thames
- Homes scheme runs into a fight
- Green fields where larks flew are left dead and barren. Welcome to Prescott's legacy
- Green belt land 'can be built on'
- When Nimbies are right to mind the gap
- Town councillor offers own land for social homes
- 'Green' row on leisure complex
- Builders target green belt
- Campaigners warn of housing threat
- Beware the thief on the other side of the fence
- The birds that blocked 20,000 new homes
- How much land does the Church of England own?
- Build a million green belt homes, urges think tank
- 'Woods and homes' green belt call
- Sites chosen for 'super schools'
- Suburban garden or brownfield site?
- Phone tycoon in poor school plan
- Cat ban may allow housing on green belt
- Greenbelt homes 'disappointment'
- Plot of Gold
- Green Belt build to go ahead
- Conservatives now back building more homes in the country
- Greenbelt giveaway
- Massive Housing threatens green belt
- 'Green Belt is under threat'
- Massive freight scheme 'crucial for 7,000 jobs'
- Concern over 'concreting' the countryside
- Chain protest over airport growth
- Battle for Priest Hill Green Belt
- Agricultural land market - Savills Research
- 270,000 New Homes in Rural South East
2005
- Why we should junk the green belt
- West of Stevenage - a black day for the green belt
- Housing plan for green belt
- Where is future land supply going to come from?
- Building on Green Belt rises by 60pc
- Sprawling estates of 'executive' homes invade the Green Belt
- West Midlands mulls giant depots
- Building of Homes to increase by a third
- New tax may hit land sale profits
- Housing chief calls for loosening of green belt
- 'Critical' rural housing warning
- Landowners set to make £700m
- New homes plan thrown into chaos
- More plans for housing development
- Green belt homes approved
- Prescott backs green belt housing
- Bombshell as motorway station at Junction 2 gets green light
- Planning bid for homes and nature site on green belt
- UK Government insists on higher housing output to meet demands of Barker report
- Bradford City sets out plan to build 14,000 homes in 10 years
- Britain needs a million new homes
- Plan to build 8,000 new homes
- 'Elastic band' green belt claim
- Threat to 'green belt' 50 years on
- Government eroding greenbelts, say Conservatives
- Council dismisses plan for 94 homes
- Greens see red over Prescott's housing plans
- Opposition slams house building plans
- Prescott set to allow more greenbelt homes
- Prescott backs land tax to fund services
- 2,400 acres of green belt lost each year
- Green belts under threat from government 'sustainable' plans
- 'Increasing threat' to green belt
- Extra 140,000 homes planned for South
- Redrow rises to Prescott's challenge
- Join the great Basingstoke land grab
- Land shortage sees prices soar
- Drive for land in West Scotland
- Call for Blue Belt Land
2004
- Priest Hill Green Belt land development
- Village green idea comes a cropper
- MP takes a U-turn on Green Belt plans
- Campaigners plea to halt greenfield homes plan
- Regional panel backs housing development plan
- Prescott's plans to bulldoze countryside
- Prescott will rule on Peddimore
- Green belt plan attacked
- Protesters' fury over homes for green belt
- Is the green belt getting looser?
- The spread of UK Land Ownership
- Our greenbelt may be lost to housing
- Fury as homes on greenbelt get go-ahead
- Demand for Country Land booms
- Taylor Woodrow buys MOD site
- Brownfield housing potential rises
- Thumbs up for school revamp
- St Albans Green Belt house plan
- Green belt fears aired
- Prescott oversees Britain's silent metamorphosis
- Green-belt rules to be overhauled as pressure to build rises
- New call for review of Green Belt
- Lack of Land for Sale
- Growing Market in Back Gardens
- New homes vital to Labour manifesto
- Shock bid for 40,000 houses
- Labour will concrete over Green Belt, say Tories
- Vast Majority Supports More House Building
- Green belt disappears as Blair fails to honour countryside vow
- Labour abandoning North and concreting over South
- Shock as 'tip' is sold for £100,000
- Expansion scheme for university
- Tories Attack over Greenbelt 'Elastic'
- Alarm over green belt
- Green Belt appeal for 400 new homes
- Tighten that green belt, Prescott wants to build
- Lack of brownfield sites means homes built on Green Belt
- Homes building 'hammer blow'
- Radical plan to shake up housing
- Housing battle could set a 'damaging precedent'
- Ammo dump homes bid goes to public inquiry
- MP Lilley accuses government of Green Belt sacrifice
- Fight fails to halt demand for extra homes
- 500,000 new homes for M11 region
- Extra Home Threat to Green belt
- Aberdeen Expansion Plan put on the map
- Green Belt Plan Rubber-Stamped
- Milton Keynes to double in size over next 20 years
2003
- UK home supply way below demand
- Houses would pay for school
- Land prices fuel property boom - Why aren't our builders building?
- Fighting plans is residents Priority
- Record shortage of land to fuel continued property price boom
- Resignation call over Green Belt housing
- UK land prices 'rocket'
- 31 Green Belt sites targeted for homes
- Green Belt development at Sandford-on-Thames
- Major housing plan 'will overwhelm countryside'
- The future of the green belt: what are the options?
- Self-build is housing market's next big thing
- Development Strategy, Green Belt and Housing
- South of England 'must allow green field homes'
- UK Land Prices Studied by Halifax
- Billions promised for house-building bonanza
- New homes will use Green Belt 'equal to West Midlands'
2001
