The new PM and housing secretary want to scrap centralised, top-down targets under the government’s standard method of assessing housing need, giving more say to local communities.
Green belt development has risen 127% since 2016, and the counties of Hertfordshire, Essex and Surrey account for two thirds of all current development threats to London’s green belt.
Rishi Sunak would stop development on the green belt, but Liz Truss promises to build one million homes on the green belt and is promoting brownfield zoning
