Combined authorities to oversee Labour green belt release, says Nandy

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Shadow housing secretary says development corporations would get a role in building homes on former green belt land

The Labour Party will look to use development corporations overseen by combined authorities to release “poor quality” greenbelt land for housing, the shadow housing secretary has said.

In an interview published over the weekend, Lisa Nandy said that if elected, Labour would “take on the taboo around the green belt and declassify the poor-quality parts which currently aren’t very lucrative for developers but provide good sites for new housing”.

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