Land News Archive

Delay on St Albans District Plan

New Government regulations have forced consultation into the St Albans planning blueprint, the District Plan, to be put back for a year. Read full article.

Greenfield land under threat

New homes are likely to be built on greenfield land in the Broxbourne borough under sweeping plans to build thousands of dwellings in the M11 corridor, a Government spokesman has revealed. While the numbers involved are far from clear, Broxbourne's Tory MP Marion Roe said the "lack of information" about how the scheme would affect the district left her "extremely worried". Read full article.

Thames Housing Plan

A massive London housing plan, annexing 40 miles of the Thames riverbank and stretching into Kent, Essex and Bedfordshire, was announced by John Prescott yesterday. Read full article.

Self build land the next big thing?

Prices of self build land in South East England continue to defy all belief, with figures up to £1 million in the most sought-after areas. Read full article.

Surrey Green Belt Housing Estates

Regional dictats will dump housing estates on Surrey's Green Belt land, or impose an incinerator on Guildford, irrespective of local wishes. Read full article.

UK Land Prices rocket

The price of residential land for sale in the UK has increased a staggering eight-fold over the last 20 years. A shortage of residential land, combined with buoyant demand for new properties lies behind rising prices, says a recent Halifax survey. Unsurprisingly, the most expensive land is in London and the South East, with the cheapest being in Wales and the North. Read full article.

Development Plots of Land

Dozens of sites in the St Albans area may be removed from the Green Belt, as councillors struggle to find space for housing development. Read full article.

Prescott will blight greenfield land

Up to half a million homes will be built on greenfield land in the South East of England over the next 30 years. Read full article.

Farmland in London could be built on

Nearly 60,000 acres of farmland, enough to build up to 700,000 homes, lies within 16 miles of Trafalgar Square and could be built on to reduce the housing shortage in the South-East, according to a report published today. Read full article.

200,000 affordable homes in South East

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister sets targets for the number of homes it wants to see built in each region of the country by a specific date. Under a guidance note he issued two years ago, local authorities in London and the South-East are already committed to allow the building of 62,000 new homes a year for the next 20 years. This target has now been increased by a further 10,000 new homes a year. Read full article.

Green Belt land in Epping under threat

Worried residents packed a Waltham Abbey pub for the first stage of their fight to stop houses being built on almost four acres of Green Belt land in the town. Read full article.

Greenfield land in Kent vanishing

Ashford town’s population of 60,000 is expected almost to double over the next 30 years. To house the required numbers, large expanses of greenfield land, owned by the Church Commissioners, will have to be used; Ashford has little or no brownfield land left unoccupied. Read full article.

Residential Building Land Report 2002

Excerpts from the Residential Building Land Report by the Valuation Office Agency, 2002. Read full article.

Prescott launches homes explosion

The Government today ordered homes to be built on land designated as Green Belt in a massive project to overcome the housing shortage in the Home Counties and around London. Read full article.

Who will save the garden of England?

Chancellor Gordon Brown launches an attack on the planning controls which have protected the countryside and the character of South East England for the past 50 years. Read full article.

Time to buckle down on green belt?

By far the most effective possible solution to London and the South-East's housing shortages and high prices would be the release of more land for development. Put brutally, is the green belt sacrosanct? Read full article.

Fight launched against Green Belt plans

Ministers are to pump £1 billion into a building programme in a bid to provide affordable housing for nurses, police officers and other key public-sector staff in the South-East. Read full article.

Deepening Housing Crisis

Shortage of homes over next 20 years threatens deepening housing crisis Britain is heading for a property shortage of more than a million homes by 2022 unless the current rate of housebuilding is dramatically increased, according to reports from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). Read full article.

Greenbelt land starting to buckle

Since the 1940s, the Metropolitan green belt has sat like an impregnable buffer around London, protecting property prices with its promise of permanent open fields safe from developers. But are the cracks beginning to appear? The Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) warns of "death by a thousand cuts" in the face of the relentless demand for new homes. Read full article.

Green Belt land for houses

John Prescott has given the go-ahead for developers to send bulldozers onto the green belt land and build 10,000 houses, raising the size of Stevenage by a third, almost joining it to neighbouring Hitchin. Read full article.

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