Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner MP outlined a new strategy on Tuesday (July 30) for Green Belt land release and local authorities now needing to review their green belt areas if needed to meet housing targets. It follows over 13,000 new homes being allocated to be built in Rushcliffe in the last decade, with Rushcliffe having to accept central government’s ‘duty to co-operate’ to agree to an additional 3,500 more homes, in addition to the 6,000 already allocated, to meet the needs of the Nottingham City local authority area, dwellings the City Council said it could not accommodate. The cur…
