questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance the Government has issued to local planning authorities on how to assess and document that brownfield and grey belt options have been exhausted before releasing other green belt land for development; and whether compliance with that sequential approach will be a condition of Local Plan approval.
answerText: The government has not changed the five purposes of the Green Belt set out in paragraph 143 of the NPPF, and we do not propose to alter its general extent. In its response to the 30 July 2024 to 24 September 2024 consultation on proposed reforms to the Na...
heading: Planning: Brownfield Sites and Green Belt