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'

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

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
The chairs of five parish councils have issued an unprecedented and scathing attack over North Yorkshire County Council’s (NYCC) environmental record, claiming the authority has passed every single plan to quarry or process waste on Green Belt land made to it over the past 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
Doncaster Council planners have recommended that an outdoor cafe on a family farm be refused consent to continue trading.

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 £...

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

Substantial house enlarged and redeveloped to create a wonderful family home of ...

Housing in Leeds

Kevin Hollinrake MP: An opportunity to tackle housing crisis

Concern at prices of homes on Green Belt sites

Gavin Barwell MP

Green belt pledge as minister lifts block on Bradford housing plan

The proposed farm near Rufforth, North Yorkshire was for 288,000 chickens.

Plans withdrawn for intensive poultry farm near York

Whipperdale Bank in North Yorkshire, one of the natural landscapes that needs protecting in 2016. Picture: James Hardisty.

Jules Marley: Our Christmas wishes for the Yorkshire countryside

The Woolpack in Emmerdale

Emmerdale tour plan gets go-ahead

Leeds: Emmerdale tourism spot drama is straight out of soap-ville

Kevin Hollinrake, Conservative MP for Malton and Thirsk, at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate.

MP wants ‘exceptions’ to build affordable rural homes

The Yorkshire Dales. Picture by Tony Johnson

Government urged to protect UK’s ‘rural tranquility’

Prime Minister David Cameron

“Country man” Cameron in green belt pledge

Campaigners urge council to protect countryside from housing development

Stuart Andrew: Green belt under threat from housing targets

Only build on green belt as a last resort

Turbines ‘blight on value of properties’

Lost opportunity

Village set to lose fight on planned turbine

Green belt threatened  by stupidity

Fears for green belt as more gipsy sites planned

Campaigners win court fight over Green Belt land

Another wind turbine set for Calder Valley