Shredding the green belt is a recipe for disaster. We need a saner planning policy | Simon Jenkins

One of the great creations of postwar Britain is under threat from the housing crisis – it doesn’t have to be this way

Is the green belt doomed? One of the great creations of postwar British planning – the concept of a national park within reach of every city-dweller – is fast losing friends. Under siege from centralist housing targets, argued between Tories and their lobbyists, it has now been undermined by Labour’s Keir Starmer. He wants to leave decisions on building in London’s green belt to ...