The number of homes proposed on London’s green belt has almost doubled in two years to more than 200,000, according to analysis of local plans.
A total of 519 potential housing estates have been identified on the protected land, on which development is meant to take place only in exceptional circumstances to stop the capital sprawling into the home counties.
The London Green Belt Council (LGBC), an alliance of organisations which campaigns to protect the green belt, found that 55 out of 66 local authorities with land in the London metropolitan green belt proposed to allocate some for development.
