The European Commission has approved proposals to ease pressure on the green belt by making it more cost effective to reclaim brownfield sites. The approval will allow the Regional Development Agencies and local authorities to give financial help to developers to decontaminate polluted land.The announcement of the approval came from the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott as environmental campaigners voiced concerns over the fate of the green belt under plans he unveiled for the first phase of a massive house building programme in the south east of England. He named five strategic sites where 200,000 homes will be built to tackle the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the region. .
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