Osborne to incentivise brownfield construction

George Osborne will announce new incentives for developers to build new homes on derelict urban sites in an effort to spare the green belt. Figures show there is enough brownfield land for 2.5m homes, but developers are often reluctant to build on it due to having to decontaminate soil on former industrial sites. "It looks like a welcome recognition that more needs to be done to use sites in towns and cities that are derelict and not force development sprawling into the countryside,” said Shaun Spiers of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.