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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Noah Vickers

Sadiq Khan: 'We must build on green belt to ease London's housing crisis'

Sir Sadiq Khan will argue in a keynote speech that a 'radical step-change' is required to enable homes to be built on parts of London's green belt - (via REUTERS)

Thousands of homes must be built on London’s green belt in order to fix the capital’s housing crisis, Sir Sadiq Khan will argue in a controversial speech on Friday.

In a move billed by the mayor as a “radical step-change” at City Hall, Sir Sadiq will say he wants to be “honest with Londoners” that only building on already-developed brownfield land “will never be enough to meet the scale of the challenge”.

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