A corridor of greenbelt land between London and Cambridge should be made available for housing development, according to a report by a group of academics led by the London School of Economics.
London and the southeast’s housing needs cannot be met by brownfield sites, and greenfield sites cannot continue to be ignored as a development option, the LSE’s assistant professor of urban planning studies, Alan Mace, said.
The London-Cambridge corridor – chosen because a co-ordinated approach to development is already been promoted there – could test the practice, the researchers said.
