Submission statement: This article goes into how land from the Green Belt can be released to allievatie the housing crisis.
>”This matters because the country has changed profoundly since the Green Belt was first drawn. Many parts of London and other high-demand cities are already dense, and further intensification is increasingly constrained by heritage, infrastructure capacity, and liveability. Cities cannot absorb unlimited growth within fixed boundaries.
Also in my view, you can have highly dense 100k towns (with trams) surrounded by nature parks but all connected via trains throughout Green Belt land across England. This would create millions of homes without using much land. The benefit of undeveloped land in the Green Belt is that it’s much easier to do transit-oriented development.
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Submission statement: This article goes into how land from the Green Belt can be released to allievatie the housing crisis.
>”This matters because the country has changed profoundly since the Green Belt was first drawn. Many parts of London and other high-demand cities are already dense, and further intensification is increasingly constrained by heritage, infrastructure capacity, and liveability. Cities cannot absorb unlimited growth within fixed boundaries.
>That is why [the draft NPPF 2025](https://urbanistarchitecture.co.uk/comparing-nppf-2024-vs-nppf-2025/) signals a shift from blanket ideology to targeted, evidence-led change, with clearer support for releasing the lowest-value [Grey Belt land](https://urbanistarchitecture.co.uk/grey-belt/) in sustainable locations where need is proven. The direction is clear, but the outcome will depend on delivery. If plan-making, infrastructure and decision-taking do not keep pace, the Green Belt will continue to act as a scarcity valve and [keep upward pressure on housing prices](https://urbanistarchitecture.co.uk/how-green-belt-drives-housing-prices/) for the foreseeable future.”
Also in my view, you can have highly dense 100k towns (with trams) surrounded by nature parks but all connected via trains throughout Green Belt land across England. This would create millions of homes without using much land. The benefit of undeveloped land in the Green Belt is that it’s much easier to do transit-oriented development.
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Oh boy I saw a reel on instagram about the green belt map and the comments were as follows:
“No more green belt because Kier Starlin wants to build a million houses suddenly”
“Labour wants to kill nature to build miles and miles of grey apartments”
“Green Belt until Labour came along”
“Dictator Stalin wants to convert it into the Grey Belt”
“Starmer won’t even leave nature alone”
“Why do we even need a million houses all of a sudden”
“Sadiq ruined London and now he wants to ruin the green belt by building there!!”
Only one comment I saw was sensible and explained that the belt isn’t all national parks and reserves.
Just build taller and denser in the cities