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Javid: 'No need to build on green belt'

Business Secretary Sajid Javid on relaxing planning laws.

Business Secretary Sajid Javid on relaxing planning laws for brownfield sites in England in an attempt to boost house-building.

鈥淲hat we鈥檙e going to do now is go further and say that we will zone them for housing development鈥 that means that those homes can get built a lot quicker.鈥

鈥淭here鈥檚 no need to build on the green belt鈥here鈥檚 plenty of land that鈥檚 not green belt that we can build on that is suitable for housing and we need to get on with it.鈥

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