The new government’s plans to allow more development on parts of the green belt have been hailed as a potential game-changer for housing supply. However, there are growing fears that the â€˜golden rules’ governing the release of sites may simply make sites unviable

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A green belt housing development at Wimborne in Dorset

Land promoter Richborough is working with landowners to get permissions or allocations on around 60 green belt sites – that’s about a third of its pipeline of work. So, with the new Labour government setting out plans in August to make it far easier to release land from the green belt for development, you might expect chief executive Paul Campbe