§ Mr. Goughasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what areas of the Green Belt and Green Wedges provided for under the Greater London Plan for 1944, following the recommendations of the late Professor Abercrombie and accepted and endorsed by the Minister of Town and Country Planning in 1947, have since been allowed to be developed; and what steps he has taken, and proposes to take, to prevent any further loss as open spaces of the areas still remaining.
§ Mr. H. BrookeIt is not possible to give a precise answer, for the Greater London Plan gave only a broad indication of the areas intended as Green Belt. I can however say that the Green Belt areas shown in the several county development plans have been jealously guarded, in accordance with policy statements written into those plans. It is only in very special circumstances that permission is given inside a Green Belt for development for purposes other 157W than agriculture, sport, cemeteries, institutions in extensive grounds, or other uses appropriate to a rural area.