Labour’s housing plans will use green belt land twice size of Milton Keynes, expert says

David Rudlin, a new towns specialist, says green fields should not be unchangeable, or be abandoned

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Green fields equivalent to double the size of Milton Keynes will need to be used to meet the government’s housebuilding pledge, according to one of the country’s leading urbanists who has said planners should take “confident bites” out of the green belt.

The demand for land resulting from Labour’s promise to build 1.5m homes in its first term could be even higher if previously used brownfield land is not exploited, according to David Rudlin, an expert in new towns who has been in talks with the new government.

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