Housing and planning

The use of greenfield and brownfield land in Green Belt housing & commercial projects

This report provides data and analysis of the pattern of development in English Green Belts since 2009.

The analysis covers planning applications for residential and large industrial & commercial new build projects in the Green Belts and analyses the number and success rate of such applications over the ten financial years from 2009/10 to 2018/19.

The analysis is based upon residential and non-residential planning applications and projects tracked and researched by Glenigan.

Third Party Rights of Appeal in Planning

This major report explores the case for 'third party rights of appeal’. Currently, a developer may appeal against refusal of planning permission, but members of the public have no right to appeal against the grant of permission - no matter how strong their case. Written by an independent team of respected academics, consultants and legal experts in the field of planning, the research was funded by a broad alliance of environmental and amenity groups, including CPRE.

Unlocking Potential: Best Practice for Brownfield Land Registers

CPRE campaigns for a beautiful and living countryside and we do that by working to protect, promote and enhance our towns and countryside to make them better places to live, work and enjoy. As part of this we have long campaigned for prioritising use of brownfield land for housing because we believe it stops the waste of precious countryside.

This new research commissioned from HTA Design LLP examines the identification and assessment of brownfield sites by local planning authorities in light of the Brownfield Land Register Regulations, 2017.

It finds that national and local government could be doing far more to identify more brownfield land and make the task more efficient in in the process.