21 August 2022 Today, we have published the results of our latest research into threats to the London Metropolitan Green Belt‘Safe Under Us’? The continued shrinking of London’s local countrysideThe …
Why London’s Green Belt Is So Important
3 August 2022 These are critical times for Green Belts across the UK. They are under greater pressure for development than at any time since their creation nearly 70 years …
Theresa Villiers MP Voices Criticisms of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
13 June 2022 Robin Bishop writes: Today the LGBC is holding its AGM, reconstituting itself as a Community Interest Company (CIC) and re-launching its website. These are necessary steps to …
Three Rivers Joint Residents Association meets MPs and Housing Minister
13 April 2022 David Zerny, committee member of Three Rivers Joint RA, writes: On 31 March 2022 Jon Bishop, Barry Grant, Rue Grewal and I, representing Three Rivers Joint Residents …
Green Belt protection: the need for Government to resolve policy inconsistencies
13 April 2022 Chris Berry, Planning Manager of CPRE Hertfordshire, writes: Questions are frequently raised about the technical basis for objections to development, that is, what are the rules for …
CPRE Report: 50 London Parks And Green Spaces Under Threat
March 2022 CPRE has published a report on threats to London’s green spaces Forever Green? Privatisation, neglect and financial gain: why 50 London parks and green spaces are under threat …
Broke Hill appeal dismissed
1 February 2022 By Andy Smith The Planning Inspectorate has dismissed the developers’ appeal against Sevenoaks Council’s refusal of permission for 800 houses in the Green Belt at the Broke …
Outrage over Hertsmere
28 January 2022 Nick Jones of the Barnet Society writes: Hertsmere Borough Council has withdrawn plans for housing and other development across vast tracts of Green Belt land to the …
Government reiteration of Green Belt policy
November 2021 Hertfordshire Green Belt: National Planning PolicyVolume 704: debated on Tuesday 23 November 2021== excerpt == The Minister for Housing (Christopher Pincher) However, the hon. Lady is right to …
Strong support for LGBC protest against appeal decision
September 2021 In June our chairman, Richard Knox-Johnston wrote to the Prime Minister in June protesting at the very alarming Appeal decision by a Planning Inspector that housing need is …