Senior Conservatives have urged the prime minister to build four million homes on green belt land, arguing it could raise almost £1tn for the Treasury.
A paper published by the Adam Smith Institute, the free-market think tank, calls for the use of compulsory purchase orders to buy green belt land in metropolitan areas.
Shares issued to landowners, local residents, councils and central government could then be traded on the stock market.
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Mitsubishi Estates and Co-Re appoint Savills to help lease the development’s office space
Decision deferred on former National Institute of Agricultural Botany revamp
Developer has taken 10 storeys off proposals since first filing
Colliers appointed to lease 50,000 sq ft of office space in the Salford Quays development
