Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the amount of brownfield land in the Wolverhampton local authority area.
The National Planning Policy Framework defines brownfield as ‘previously developed land’. Our latest statistics, Land Use in England, 2018, show that 44.7 per cent of City of Wolverhampton Council’s area is brownfield land.
It is for each local authority to consider how best the land in its area should be used, and plan accordingly, and to identify and publish in its Brownfield Register those sites it finds suitable for housing-led redevelopment.