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26 Mar 2015

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Number of houses planned on greenfield sites

Number of houses planned on Green Belt – March 2015
Research by the Campaign to Protect Rural England has found that 219,000 houses are planned for Green Belt sites:

Metropolitan (around London): 86,935
Yorkshire: 40,800
West Midlands: 35,550
South West (inc West of England county region): 16,245
Nottinghamshire: 13,800
North West: 11,810
North East: 8,000
Oxfordshire: 4,510
Cambridgeshire: 1,885

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/destruction-green-belt-land-rockets-5408790

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  1. Let’s not forget that “Green Belt” is a specific designation of land (perhaps similar to a “green wedge”) but definitely not the same as “greenfield”.

    So the figures above are as much dependent on how much land is designated as “green belt” as anything else, and are very unlikely to be representative of “greenfield” development in each area.

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