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It's no secret the UK faces a housing shortage. Families made homeless through no fault evictions or soaring private rents have been cramped into 'temporary accommodation', sometimes for months and ...

The concept that ‘green belt’ land is protected from development at all costs is being challenged by the new concept of ‘grey belt’. Revisions to national planning policy were published in December ...

Town planners have rejected plans to build up to three houses on a rural piece of Bolton land. The land, between Westhoughton and Blackrod, is designated as green belt – but argued to be “grey belt” ...

Plans to build up to nine homes in the Green Belt are set to be approved in principle. Mohammed Saleem wants to develop land to the rear of High Street, in Alsagers Bank. But the application has ...

A developer is proposing to build more than 100 homes on Solihull’s green belt. Taylor Wimpey has submitted the plan to build 120 homes – half of them affordable – on land off Stratford Road in ...

Major plans could see a commercial plant nursery replaced with 350 homes and 564 car parking spaces. Alston Properties wants to build a new “sustainable” development at Coblands Nursery in Trench Road ...

Families in a Kent commuter belt village say there is 'one law for some and another for others' after travellers paved over a field and moved in caravans without planning permission - only for the ...

A local MP has said she is ‘concerned’ about a controversial housing development on land near Bristol - but developers say it fits the Labour Government’s criteria of building on ‘Grey Belt’ sites.

More than 1,200 people have signed a petition against the building of a new housing estate on South Tyneside's green belt. Story Homes has proposed a 205-home development on fields surrounding Marsden ...