Homes on green belt sites are being built at less than half the density of other sites, according to the latest analysis by countryside lobby group the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

In its regular state of the green belt report, released today, the body said that the average density of development was just 14 homes per hectare, compared with 31 homes per hectare on schemes outside the green belt, and that “low-density development in the Green Belt is failing to make the best use of land.”