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20 09 2021
UAE to invest £10 billion in priority UK industries

The UK Office for Investment (OfI) and Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company, today signed an agreement at Downing Street to significantly expand the UAE-UK Sovereign...

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07 09 2021
Tackling the under-supply of housing in England

Failing to meet housing need Estimates have put the number of new homes needed in England at up to 345,000 per year, accounting for new...

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07 09 2021
Building on London’s Green Belt. BBC London’s Leana Hosea reports.

According to the London Green Belt Council there are plans to build more than 230,000 new homes on the London green belt. Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoAVOkqmm2g&ab_channel=LeanaHosea

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07 09 2021
Green Belt land betrayal – for quarter of a million houses (UK)

Green Belt land betrayal - for quarter of a million houses. Guaranteed to be left as green decades ago in the London area, Prime Minister...

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07 09 2021
Is a Greenbelt review the solution to London’s housing crisis?

In February 2018 we published an article focusing on regeneration,  looking at how the investment in such development should be managed for the betterment of the...

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07 09 2021
‘Eight weeks to save green belt’ as region’s future is mapped out

Seven Cornfields is one of the sites that could be developed The consultation on the Black Country Plan opens on Monday and will last for...

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07 09 2021
Decision due on plans for new residential developments at Alderley Park

Plans to build houses on the two of the remaining undeveloped residential parcels of land in the southern campus area of Alderley Park will be...

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07 09 2021
Number of housing sites planned on London’s green belt has trebled in four years, report claims | Planning Resource

The number of housing sites allocated on London's green belt in local plans has trebled in the past four years, according to a study by...

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07 09 2021
How to Get Planning Permission for Building on Green Belt Land in the UK

Planning Consultant Mark Morris explains how to get Planning Permission to build on the Green Belt. One of the most common questions we get from...

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07 09 2021
How to Get Planning Permission in the Open Countryside

In this video, Chartered Planning & Development Surveyor, Chris Whitehouse answers the tricky question of how to achieve planning permission in the open countryside. We...

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07 09 2021
New homes get ‘automatic’ planning-permission in UK housing construction industry shake-up (2020 2021)

New homes and hospitals will be granted "automatic" permission to be built as part of sweeping planning reforms in England, the housing secretary says. Robert...

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07 09 2021
Campaigners mull legal action as government approves green belt development

Government has signed off plans to bulldoze green belt land in St Albans, despite experts’ concerns. Councillors voted last month to permit 150 new homes on 13 acres of protected land...

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07 09 2021
Fiddlers Ferry site set for 1,300 homes by 2038

MORE than 1,300 new homes are proposed to be built on green belt land at the Fiddlers Ferry power station site by 2038. Almost 15,000 new...

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07 09 2021
Canford Park 695-home plan receives outline approval again

OUTLINE plans for a development of almost 700 homes on former green belt land have been backed by councillors for the second time in six...

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07 09 2021
Yew Tree Farm: Call to preserve Bristol’s green spaces as new homes threat looms

An opposition councillor is calling on Bristol’s mayor to save the city’s green spaces from being obliterated by new housing. Conservative representative Richard Eddy wants Labour’s Marvin...

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07 09 2021
Government will fail to reach housing target until 2028

The latest research by Birmingham and Newcastle-based property developer, StripeHomes, reveals that, at the current rate of progress, the UK government will not achieve its...

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07 09 2021
London: Is it time to build on the green belt to meet housing demand?

According to its supporters, London's green belt is the ultimate guarantee that the land is kept green and pleasant. But as pressure on housing in...

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07 09 2021
‘Fresh assault’ on Edinburgh’s greenbelt as 500 new homes proposed at Cammo

A new planning application to build up to 500 homes in the Cammo area has been attacked by a local councillor as “a fresh assault...

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