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Green belt
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on the role of the green belt in the planning system. Covers: the factors that can be taken into account when considering the potential impact of development on the openness of the green belt; how plans might set out ways in which the impact of removing land from the green belt can be offset by compensatory improvements; how strategic policy making authority can ensure that compensatory improvements to the environmental quality and accessibility of the green belt will be secured; and when development can take place on brownfield land in the green belt.
Document History
Last updated: 27 February 2025 - New version published to reflect the revised version of the National Planning Policy Framework 2024. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/green-belt and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 22 July 2019.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
2 Marsham Street
London
MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
