PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Green Belt (13 May 2019)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what analysis his Department has undertaken to identify green belt land close to train stations and within an hour's travel time of London.

Asked by:
Dame Siobhain McDonagh (Labour)

Analysis of green belt land within half a mile of train stations, not including national parks, Areas Of Natural Beauty and Sites of Special Scientific Interest, was produced using publicly available datasets; it showed that there were just over 57,100 hectares of such land in England. However, the analysis does not indicate how much of this land is suitable for housing developments, or how much of that land is currently in use.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
20 May 2019