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<p>This Government continues to attach great importance to safeguarding the Green
Belt. It will address concerns about the harm caused when there is unauthorised development
of land in advance of obtaining planning permission and there is no opportunity to
appropriately limit or mitigate the harm that has already taken place. For these reasons,
the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government will introduce a new planning
and recovery policy for the Green Belt early in the new Parliament to strength protection
against unauthorised development. This new policy will apply to all development within
the Green Belt. In the meantime he has also decided to de-recover those cases of appeals
for Traveller development in the Green Belt on which a substantive decision has not
been reached. These will be remitted back to the Planning Inspectorate and, where
appropriate, we will re-assess them in light of the new recovery policy.</p>
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