Claim: Local authorities are proposing 459,000 homes for Green Belt land, up from 425,000 a year ago.
Fact-check: Are there plans to build on the Green Belt? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is uncertain but plausible. that's according to the campaign to protect rural england's analysis of english council plans—typically plans for building over the next 15 years. the figures are rough estimates.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2018-08-21T00:00:00