'I began to see what a sacred cow the Green Belt has become' said Minister for Housing & Local Government Richard Crossman in 1964.
The Green Belt is a political behemoth that has long loomed over the planning system. In this episode Sam Stafford asks Paul Miner, Strategic Planning & Devolution at CPRE, and Kathryn Ventham, Planning Partner at Barton Willmore, whether housing need is becoming a sufficiently irresistible force to shift hitherto immovable Green Belt boundaries?
Twitter handles: @samuel_stafford. @PaulMiner3 and @kateventham.
Some accompanying reading and viewing:
John Grindrod’s ‘Outskirts’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/14/outskirts-by-john-grindrod-review
Ipsos Mori polling for the CPRE on public attitudes towards the Green Belt
https://www.ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-uk/attitudes-towards-green-belt-land
Ipsos Mori polling for Housing The Powerhouse on attitudes towards housing development in Greater Manchester
'The Green Noose: An analysis of Green Belts and proposals for reform' by the Adam Smith Institute
‘Planned up and be counted ‘ local plan making under NPPF 2012’ by Lichfields
https://lichfields.uk/content/insights/planned-up-and-be-counted
‘This Blessed Plot – This Other Eden’ - A film for the Council for the Preservation of Rural England
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/rural-england-aka-this-blessed-plot-this-other
‘The myth of the countryside idyll’ by Steve Middlehurst
Keith Joseph’s 1964 South East Study
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/19/newsid_2570000/2570681.stm
A Policy Briefing Paper by the Landscape Institute
https://www.landscapeinstitute.org/policy/green-belt-policy/
The London Society’s Position Paper
https://www.londonsociety.org.uk/post/londons-green-belt
‘The Proud City’ – A film outlining plans for the post war reconstruction of London, featuring Patrick Abercrombie and JH Forshaw.