Green Belt

Cheesecake Hall was a late-medieval hall just off what is now Wakefield Road in Oulton, Leeds.

Inspector rejects plans for 'overtly modern' home on site of 16th century hall
A PLANNING inspector has thrown out plans for an “overtly modern” house and double garage on the site of a 16th century hall in the Green Belt near Leeds.

Rother Valley MP Jake Richards

MP calls for further changes to plans for UKs largest solar farm in Yorkshire

Sally Ormiston shares her expert insight

Why new housing can be good news for rural areas

Houses under construction on a housing development. PIC: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

'Give mayors US-style zoning planning powers to tackle housing crisis'

The Triangle Inn, with car park opposite, at Triangle, near Sowerby Bridge

Developer wants to build four homes on car park opposite Grade II-listed pub

Nicole Wright, head of planning at Rural Solutions

Join the debate about planning changes for Yorkshire communities

Farmers in tractors drive pass the Piccadilly lights in central London, as they protest over the changes to inheritance tax (IHT) rules. PIC: PA Wire

Family farm tax policy shows awful trajectory of this government - YP Letters

Hartlepool has seen many politicians fight for people's votes in recent years. Now Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner visited Hartlepool Power Station last year. Picture by FRANK REID

Developments could fill up green belt to hit housing targets

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner during a visit to a housing development site. PIC: Ian Vogler/Daily Mirror/PA Wire

The planning system needs tweaking – Paul Andrews

Killian Gallagher

Labour's target of 1.5m new homes requires lower interest rates

Forest Lane Head. Google Maps

Swimming pool showroom could be built in affluent Harrogate

Liz Emerson

Battleground Yorkshire: Older voters need to realise how good they have it

Dog rescue

Yorkshire animal rescue allowed to use Green Belt land for dog rehabilitation

Silsden Farm Shop Site

Butchers’ plans to build farm shop and café on outskirts of Silsden refused

The A63 and A1 junction, near where Roadchef hopes to build a £50m motorway services area

Plan for new service station would cause 'substantial harm' to landscape

An artist's impression of some of the homes planned for the site - Picture by Watson Batty Architects

“Delight” as plans to build housing on former mill site in Haworth withdrawn

North Yorkshire Council's headquarters, County Hall, in Northallerton Photo: LDRS

Proposal to build motorway services area across farmland “should be rejected”

Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, speaks outside BBC Broadcasting House in London.

Ministers to allow shops and offices to become new homes in planning shake-up

Baildon Moor. Picture Bruce Rollinson

Plan to build new homes refused to stop 'urban sprawl' into Green Belt

'Tony Juniper, chair of Natural England, said that building on the green belt should be a part of the UK’s answer to the housing crisis'. PIC: PA

We need to build on green belt to solve housing crisis - Bartek Staniszewski

Breedon Aggregates at Stainton

Yorkshire quarry to expand after claim it was site of WW2 plane crash 'debunked'
Plans to extend a limestone quarry in Doncaster have been approved after several councillors showed their support for the application.
Shannon Mower

Former Yorkshire textile mill and nightclub Canal Mills has been sold to pave the way for a development of more than 100 new homes.

Yorkshire holds an estimated £53.2bn of undeveloped land analysis suggests

Wilsden Glamping

Plan to create glamping site at former Yorkshire quarry refused

Restored peatlands could help the countryside around towns and cities soak up more water to protect urban areas from increased floods, droughts and other natural disasters. PIC: James Hardisty

The Green Belt has a key role to play in safeguarding our future - The YP says

Prince Charles visiting Dovecote Park in 2013

Meat plant in Yorkshire set to expand despite Green Belt fears

John Walker has said better public understanding of Green Belt policy is required. Picture: Andrew Porter Photography

Public misunderstanding of Green Belt policy 'holding back housing development'

Steep Lane, Sowerby Bridge

Plans for eco-home are rejected because the site is part of the Green Belt

York city centre could see 40-floor tower blocks if homes aren't built on green belt land, it has been warned

‘Build on green belt land or risk 40-floor tower blocks'

Plans to reopen Horn Crag Quarry which attracted more than 900 complaints refused by council

Plans to reopen Horn Crag Quarry refused by council

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer vowed to back 'builders not blockers'. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer is wrong on Green Belt development - Yorkshire Post Letters

Plan for solar farm on Yorkshire Water land at Horbury sewage works

Plan for solar farm on Yorkshire Water land at Horbury sewage works

Denholme, near Bingley

Council refuses plan to convert substation near mill village into home
Plans to turn a former electricity substation in the Green Belt into a house have been refused by Bradford Council.
Chris Young

Landowner and businessman Mick Hill speaking at the meeting

Owner of Yorkshire dog exercise park wins approval to open it

Over 250 people, including the local MP and Councillors, had objected to plans to build on a plot of land off Goose Cote Lane in Oakworth.

Controversial Green Belt housing development plans scrapped at 11th hour

Green Belt land near York

Yorkshire man gets £300 after Green Belt land near home was unlawfully developed

The site near Oakworth Station

New houses could be built just yards from Oakworth Station

Hillam Parish Council has highlighted concerns over “significant increases in industrial operations” in the Selby District area after Stone Cliff Aggregates lodged plans to develop the site, which is close to the village of Lumby, the A1 and the A63, with North Yorkshire County Council.

Pleas to halt plans to transform 44 acres of farmland into a quarry

General view of the Rivelin Valley

Man who set up dog exercise park without permission likely to be refused consent

Rufforth village

Housing on Green Belt land in Yorkshire village refused

North York Moors

Every plan to quarry on greenbelt land in North Yorkshire approved over 20 years

An aerial view of Bennett Cottage

Developer loses fight to demolish cottage in the 'jewel in Sheffield's crown'

Nether Poppleton's views of the Minster could be obstructed by the mast

Fears new 15m-high 5G mast could obstruct village's view of York Minster

Students will learn about calf rearing, new technologies used in the cattle industry and beef finishing

Yorkshire agricultural college reveals plans to create 'high welfare beef farm'

An aerial view of the centre of York, with the city's Minster dominating the skyline. A consultation will begin on Tuesday, May 25, on York's proposed development blueprint, the Local Plan.
(Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Consultation to begin on development plan for thousands of homes while protectin...

Saltaire

Appeal rules against developer wanting to build new homes in Saltaire

Lyndsey Ashton, who is campaigning against hundreds of homes being built in the village of Greetland. Pic: Gary Longbottom

Yorkshire district set to build thousands more homes than ONS says it needs

Should more housing be built in rural areas?

Green belt fears must not compromise appropriate rural development – The Yorkshi...

Green belt land near the village of Kirk Smeaton, North Yorkshire, where campaigners are worried about development. Pic: James Hardisty

Why the green belt in areas like Bradford is under 'extreme, sustained pressure'

ilkley town centre

Housing plans could see over 200 homes built on Green Belt land in Ilkley

York. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe.

Why York's Green Belt boundaries could be defined for the first time in history

Annabel's cafe on Loversall Farm, Doncaster

Planning row over cafe on Yorkshire farm after it opened without permission

York city centre. City of York Council was one of two in the region admonished by the Government in 2018 for failing to make enough progress on its Local Plan.

York council urged to withdraw Local Plan over criticism of Green Belt boundary

Brockadale nature reserve

Yorkshire villagers fear quarry expansion could harm nature reserve that has bee...

The battery storage site will be next to the Bradford West substation. Credit: Google

Fifty batteries the size of a lorry to be placed on green belt land as part of £...

Rotherham Town Hall

Approval for hundreds of new homes on fields in Maltby with unanimous council de...

Building thousands of homes on Green Belt will not ease affordable housing crisis, countryside charity warns. Photo: PA Wire

Just one in 10 homes built on released Green Belt land are 'affordable', charity...

The CPRE is raising concerns about the future of the Green Belt in Sheffield.

The fight to save Sheffield’s Green Belt starts here by the CPRE – Andrew Wood

Thousands more homes are due to be built in Sheffield.

‘Politically sensitive’ Sheffield housing plans delayed from publication

New housing

Green Belt growth row deepens

New housing

Fears over gradual erosion of village way of life

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