Idea of grey belt is largely redundant, Lords committee says

The government's idea of re-designating areas as "grey belt" land in its bid to build more homes is "largely redundant", a House of Lords committee has said. Ministers had said that, if a council's housing targets ccould not be met, some protected land known as green belt would be re-labelled grey belt and thereby freed up for development. However, after conducting an inquiry the committee said it suspected the…