Green Belt Homes Approved Despite Landscape Damage

0:00On April 7th, a planning inspector just greenlit 195 homes on a prime green belt filled in Radlett-Herfershire, overriding the local council's three rejections and a high court dismissal. The developer, Fairfax Properties, resubmitted the plans last year, reclassifying the site as gray belt under new labor rules, even after the council, shouted down twice more. Despite the inspector's own admission that the build would damage the area's landscaping character, he pointed to Radlett's big housing shortage and pushed it through anyway. Former deputy prime ministers sir Oliver Dowden, whose district covers Radlett, slammed the move as labor fiction, insisting the grassy open. Countryside is patently greenbelt meant to stop towns like Radlett, Borhamwood, and Shindley from blending together. Gray belt was pitched by Angela Rainer, for junky, low-value spots, not cherished fields like this one, leaving locals fuming over sprawl while the homes move forward.