What are the chances of planning permission being allowed on greenbelt land?

[johnworf]

We are in the process of buying a house. The garden is rented from the local farm for a nominal fee each year and it lies within greenbelt land along with the surrounds fields.

No planning applications have been made but I'm just checking out how easy/difficult it is to obtain planning permission to build residential homes on greenbelt. We are not planning to build but I don't want anyone else building on there either.

Thanks.

Central government gets involved with about 1 in 10000 planning applications. Unless you mean the Planning Inspectorate, who are entirely independent professional adjudicators, and their entire purpose is to come to that independent view, unfettered by politics.

Please don’t believe everything on this thread, there is some unmitigated bollocks being spouted.

Green Belts are not set nationally, for one.

@MagdaS I assume the "unmitigated bollocks" was aimed at me! No need to be quite so rude, but yes I should have said protected nationally ( ie via the NPPF) rather than set. They were in fact set regionally and the boundaries can be refined locally by councils in their local plans. It's a more stringent protection than others though due to its strategic function. Apologies again for the bollocks

Just read you are in Lancashire, well if you have driven already by the M6 south of junction 33 you will see thousands of new homes, you never own a view unless you buy the land. I’d purchase a house with established housing. Lots of lovely villages in Lancashire.

I read something yesterday about 80% of planning applications for Green Belt land being passed. I was very surprised. If the owners won't sell you the land, I do think you need to be prepared for houses to built on it at some point.

Thanks for all of your responses.

In the time since I started the thread, we have managed to buy part of the land with another portion of it not for sale (we have asked). But, if anything happens in the future and planning permission is applied for, we won't have a housing estate directly next to us.

It still concerns me that 80% of green belt land that developers have applied planning permission for is passed. What about the local flora and fauna? What about flooding and soil erosion (after taking trees out)? How does the local infrastructure cope?

I'm glad, but as I understand it in free ports and investment zones planning permission won't be applied for in the usual way, so the first you might hear of it is when the building work starts. (Investment Zones aren't all firmed up, most applications just went in last week, so most of us don't know we're about to be living in one.)

I managed to know someone and speak to them at a local architecture practice last time when I was in a similar situation. They managed to investigate the planning rights. Super useful!