Thousands of homes could 'overwhelm' Stourport under new plans to change the status of green belt land, Wyre Forest councillors fear...

20-year proposal to build 640,000 homes will be launched by the Southeast Regional Assembly...

Rural land prices are still rising strongly, but a report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that the exodus of good-lifers from urban areas has slowed...

A new venture launches today, Land Initiatives Plc brings land investment to a new level - offering shares in prime development land...

Regeneration specialists St Modwen Properties bought 1,600 acres of development land last year yet still produced its twelfth successive year of record results...

Land scarcity becomes a real problem, and the hunt for useful Brownfield sites continues to increase...

Developers behind one of Coventrysbiggest ever building projects face D-Day when the official application goes before the council's planning committee....

WSP Environmental are heralding a new scheme - bespoke liability for contaminated land...

There's a lot of speculation in the media at the moment about the possibilities of mass development on the greenbelt...

The European Court ruled that all such spilled contaminants were "legal waste", which is fair enough, but they went on to decide that the soils which they have contaminated are also "waste"...

A patch of sand in a popular Welsh seaside resort was sold for 63,000 GBP.

Financial and investment products that meet the requirements of Shariah law are still comparatively thin on the ground. Land investment provides an alternative.

With house prices stagnating, investing in farmland may prove to be the alternative property investment.

Hundreds of Government owned sites are set to be released to provide affordable housing for first-time buyers.

Statistics have revealed that building new homes being built on brownfield land is at an all time high.

The decontamination of land has moved on in leaps and bounds, particularly in helping brownfield development, however agriculture is causing damage to soil.

Speculators are selling plots within green belt land, holding out to buyers the prospect that a government which is already nibbling hungrily at the green belt in several areas will soon allow planning consents to be given in others.

Developers are putting the government under pressure to release 1,200 acres of greenbelt land for 14,000 new homes in the heart of the Thames Gateway growth area.

The Olympics in 2012 will see remediation of one of the largest contaminated sites in the south east.

Allotment owners offered 28,000 GBP per plot by a property developer.

Land is now at such a premium that local authorities in areas of high housing demand, could be forced to make land available, regardless of the environmental impact.

The Green Belt is officially 50 years old today yet there's little to celebrate - green belt land is under threat from development as never before.

Why buy woodland when many of us are within driving distance of a public woodland?

John Prescott has today announced nine organisations that have taken up the challenge to build 'affordable housing' for GBP 60,000.

Developer given the green light to build 35 dwellings on green belt after being turned down twice.

All greenbelt land will be examined to see if it should be developed or protected.

A wave of house building across the UK will do little to help those in greatest housing need.

Edinburgh's green belt is, as with most green belt land, a controversial subject.

Wales has gained a reputation for urban regeneration thanks to areas of redevelopment that have taken place where the Welsh coal industry once stood.

John Prescott has given his backing to one of the biggest building schemes approved on green belt land.

Kate Barker, who is also a Housing Corporation board member, has been asked to rethink how planning policy should be overhauled, following the Treasury's review of housing supply to pinpoint more blockages in the planning system.

Figures obtained by the Telegraph have revealed a 60% rise in development on green belt land.

Environmentalists and neighbours oppose a development bid for planning permission to build 90 homes on Surrey Green Belt.

Proposals to build at least 10,000 new homes on Green Belt land in Hertfordshire.

Conservative leader David Cameron, accuses the Labour Party of a failure to build an "adequate" number of new homes.

35 acres of land in Bath are to be removed from the green belt with the potential to be built on.

Ministers have formally begun consultations on a new housing and planning delivery grant (HPDG).

The price of farmland has risen by 9% in the past year, fuelled by a surge in the number of "lifestyle buyers".

The Government has over-ruled Crawley Council and given building permission for the largest residential development in the town's history.

It was the CPRE that helped instigate the "green belt" system 50 years ago.

Arable land prices rise by 7.5 per cent in 2006.

The green belt is planning's gold standard, beloved of environmentalists and middle England alike.

There is a danger of making the countryside a place for the wealthy at the expense of local people.

Continued growth of agricultural land values is expected due to a relatively short supply of farmland.

The government are set to force local councils to mark out new greenfield areas for development to replace brownfield windfall sites.

Land values in the Fens have rocketed in the past year.

10,000 acres of greenbelt land may be developed according to research by The Guardian and the CPRE.

Campaigners protest against infill development on brownfield back gardens.

BP is set to make around GBP 6bn by building homes on green belt land in East Herts, campaigners claim.

Farmland values in England have increased 14 per cent over the past year.