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Homes built on green belt ‘will not be affordable’

Thousands of expensive homes could be built on green belt land under government plans to relax planning laws, charities have warned.

Campaigners said the changes would enrich rural landowners at the expense of the poor by reducing the amount of land earmarked for affordable homes.

The government wants to ease restrictions on small green field sites, where building is forbidden, to increase the supply of land for new homes.

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