Today, the Labour Party will set out five golden rules to free up poor-quality parts of the green belt in a bid to boost housebuilding and increase affordable housing supply. 

Labour will retain its brownfield first policy, while creating a new class of ‘grey belt’ land to ensure “poor quality and ugly areas” of the green belt can be built on.

In addition, Labour has said that plans must target at least 50% affordable housing delivery on grey belt land that is released.