Green Belt
(asked on 21st July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 13 July (HL1065), which are the 24 local authorities that have adopted new green belt boundaries and what is their estimate of (1) the subsequent loss of greenbelt land, and (2) how much greenbelt land has been lost in England during the last five years.
The list of 24 local authorities (see below) that have adopted new Green Belt boundaries in the last five years will be placed in the Library of the House. This includes an estimate of the increase or decrease in Green Belt area in each case. Over the last five years the area of Green Belt nationally decreased by 0.2 per cent , and overall the Green Belt is larger than it was in 1997 if we disregard land re-classified as national park.
2014-15 | Area of designated Green Belt land 2014/15 (hectares) | Change from 2013/14 (hectares) | |
Bath and North East Somerset | 24,690 | -100 (0%) | -100 |
Bolton | 7,230 | -50 (-1%) | -50 |
Broxtowe | 5,130 | -20 (0%) | -20 |
Cheshire West and Chester | 39,170 | -60 (0%) | -60 |
Christchurch | 3,270 | -200 (-6%) | -200 |
East Dorset | 16,720 | -160 (-1%) | -160 |
Gateshead | 8,530 | -150 (-2%) | -150 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 3,980 | -410 (-9%) | -410 |
Rushcliffe | 16,570 | -670 (-4%) | -670 |
Solihull | 11,870 | -40 (0%) | -40 |
Three Rivers | 6,720 | -110 (-2%) | -10 |
2013-14 | Area of designated Green Belt land 2013/14 (hectares) | Change from 2012/13 (hectares) | |
Rochford | 12,570 | -190 (-2%) | -190 |
South Gloucestershire | 23,030 | -210 (-1%) | -210 |
West Lancashire | 34,470 | -150 (0%) | -150 |
2012-13 | Area of designated Green Belt land 2012/13 (hectares) | Change from 2011/12 (hectares) | |
Ealing | 310 | -20 (-6%) | -20 |
Manchester | 1,280 | -430 (-25%) | -430 |
Purbeck | 8,200 | +460 (+6%) | 460 |
Wakefield | 23,500 | -400 (-2%) | -400 |
2011-12 | Area of designated Green Belt land 2011/12 (hectares) | Change from 2010/11 (hectares) | |
Chelmsford | 12,850 | -35 (0%) | -35 |
Hyndburn | 3,990 | -41 (-1%) | -41 |
Thurrock | 11,920 | -51 (0%) | -51 |
2010-11 | Area of designated Green Belt land 2010/11 (hectares) | Change from 2009/10 (hectares) | |
Enfield | 3,060 | -30 (-1%) | -30 |
Vale of WH | 8,310 | +5 (0%) | 5 |
Slough | 860 | +30 (+3%) | 30 |