It said that green belt land that is not essential could be re-classified as grey belt for 50% use as social and affordable housing along with improvements to public services and infrastructure.

The British Property Federation wants the brownfield presumption to capture a wider range of development which takes place in an urban setting including mixed use commercial development.

In a critique of the influential 2004 Barker report on housing supply, HBF says there has been limited progress over 20 years with only 11 of the 36 recommendations currently implemented in full.

Campbell Reith (CR) was faced with investigating a potential Part 2a site involving vapours from a chlorinated solvent plume which had migrated off site beneath existing residential buildings in complex geology. In this webinar, CR partner Simon Burr explains the techniques used from multi-level boreholes to in-house vapour monitoring and how the communication strategy was vital in gaining access to the homes.