Build Houses on Green Belt, Says Theresa May

Prime Minister Theresa May is to force councils to build hundreds of thousands of new homes, including a wave of flat-pack 'prefabs,' it was revealed today.

Mrs May also plans to stop rich developers sitting on land, and aims to redevelop inner-city areas as part of the biggest housing revolution since the 1960s.

Controversially she will also tell councils that the Green Belt should not necessarily be protected if all brownfield land has already been developed.

More than 100,000 pre-packed 'modular' homes could be constructed as the Government aims to meet its target to provide one million new homes by 2020.

Legal & General, the financial services company that is also one of the country's biggest housebuilders, called for a 'critical reassessment' of the Green Belt.

Its chief executive, Nigel Wilson, said:

"The Green Belt has doubled in size in the last 20 years; it is four million acres now. We've got to have a much greater critical reassessment on what is and what isn't Green Belt.

"Nobody wants to build on the Chilterns, or the Malverns or the beautiful parts of Britain, but there are lots of areas that have been designated Green Belt which are really brownfield sites and we absolutely have to build on more brownfield sites."

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