Labour, or perhaps to use their new name – the government – wants to build on the ‘grey belt’. Promising to address shortages of affordable housing and put planning front and centre – it is proposing a new definition for land that could be considered for development. Amid a long list of pledges and policies that may have so-called NIMBYS quivering in their boots, planning reform is set to take centre stage and the restoration of mandatory house building targets are top of the new Chancellor’s wish list. And so is the possibility of a new category of land – the grey belt – that will be introduc…
