The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) [Alliance member] has revealed a significant increase in houses planned for the Green Belt, and yet most of these houses will be unaffordable to those who need them.
CPRE’s annual Green Belt Under Siege report shows that more than 70% of houses proposed for development are not expected to be ‘affordable’. It also demonstrates that just 16% of houses built on Green Belt land since 2009 outside local plans were classed as ‘affordable’. In total, 425,000 houses are now planned for Green Belt land. This is an increase of 54% on March 2016, and the biggest year-on-year increase in building proposed in the Green Belt for two decades