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Green Belt: Planning Permission

Asked by Kevin HollinrakeConservativeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 29 April 2025UIN 45670

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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her oral Answer of 7 April 2025, Official Report, column 577, on what evidential basis she said that the number of homes approved on green belt land increased tenfold since 2009.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

Figures published by CPRE: the Countryside Charity in Table 1 of the State of the Green Belt 2023, which can be found here, show that the number of homes approved on greenfield land within the Green Belt in 2021-22 was almost ten times the number approved in 2009-10.

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