Question follow-through · 8487
Planning: Green Belt
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an estimate of how much of land classified as grey belt is previously developed sites.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jun 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an estimate of how much of land classified as grey belt is previously developed sites.
15 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jun 2026
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Planning Permission
15 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many meetings Ministers in her Department have held with property developers, housebuilders, and their representative organisations to discuss the National Planning Policy Fr