House building on the green belt would be allowed under Labour, Keir Starmer declared today.
The party leader moved to ease the housing crisis by saying local areas would be handed powers to develop homes on the protected land where it would not undermine the countryside’s beauty.
Labour has already pledged to restore a target of building 300,000 houses a year following Rishi Sunak's decision in December to make it advisory rather than mandatory as he ducked a backbench Tory revolt.
