Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to define the concept of the grey belt and to develop related policies.

The Government set out its proposed approach to grey belt in its consultation on proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework, which closed on 24 September.

Officials in my department are now analysing the responses with a view to publishing the Government’s conclusions, alongside a revised Framework, before the end of the year.