§ Mr. GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the locations of each development on(a) green belt land and (b) non-green belt greenfield land that he has given planning permission for since 1 May 1997. [158709]
§ Mr. Raynsford[holding answer 23 April 2001]: The locations of the 119 sites where the Secretary of State has approved development in the green belt are set out in a table which has been placed in the Libraries of the House. Sixty six per cent. of these sites involved the use of previously developed land and the conversion of existing buildings. The total area of the sites on which approval was given equates to 0.08 per cent. of the total area of green belt in England. In the same period, the Secretary of State refused development on 132 sites in the green belt.
Information on non-green belt greenfield sites is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.