FOI - grey/green belt reviews
Case reference FOI2026/00169
Received 14 February 2026
Published 13 March 2026
Request
I am writing under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) to request the following: 1. Please provide any information regarding the council’s grey/green belt reviews to date. 1. How many sites have you identified as being grey belt * And what is the acreage of these sites individually. By green/grey belt, I am referring to the environmental land classification set out in this framework: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-planning-policy-framework--2
Response
All the detail of our Green and Grey Belt review is provided in this Background Paper: bgp-006-green-belt-reg-19 . Details of Grey Belt (as that paper refers) are provided in tables 4.1 and 4.2 in this study: Oxford Local Plan . We use hectares as a standard measurement - the sizes in hectares are listed.
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