Every Field on Rusty's Desk

A historic meadow that has been open field for over a thousand years — home to wildlife, a lung for the village, and the field where the Save Our Fields story b…

A 1,500-home garden village on the former Deenethorpe Airfield between the villages of Deenethorpe and Benefield, east of Corby — one of the government's suppor…

A 5,000-home development on the former Alconbury airfield.

A 10,000-home new town on former RAF land north of Cambridge — largely built out; a case study in greenfield development pressure.

A garden village of up to 2,800 homes on greenfield east of St Neots.

A 6,500-home new town on the former Waterbeach barracks north of Cambridge.

A hyperscale data centre (84,000 m² across two buildings) was approved on green belt off Bedmond Road in May 2025 — the council refused it, and the Secretary of…

Up to 66 homes proposed on the field between Bedmond Road and East Lane, south of the village — 30 public objections so far.

Dacorum's Local Plan retained the Bk01 "Land South of Berkhamsted" green-belt allocation — around 850 homes on 33.45 hectares south of the town, the largest sin…

Up to 280 homes (revised to up to 256) are planned on the Bushey green-belt field at Harts Farm, east of Little Bushey Lane — open countryside and flood-risk la…

256 homes proposed on green belt east of Oxhey Lane — the appeal inquiry is under way.

The council refused the Polo Fields plan, but the Secretary of State overruled it on appeal — approving 721 homes (391 south and 330 north of Chiswell Green Lan…

600 homes refused by the committee opposite Whippendell Wood — the developer is appealing to the Planning Inspectorate.

A ~10,000-home expansion of Harlow into the green belt at Gilston.

A 1,500-home garden community on 105 hectares of farmland between Hemel Hempstead and Redbourn, allocated in the draft St Albans Local Plan.

A consented 187,000 m² data centre on green belt at South Mimms, Hertsmere.

192 homes were approved on green belt at Woodside Road — grazing paddocks waved through under the grey-belt reclassification, over the parish councilu0027s obje…

A 4 MW data centre proposal on the site of the historic Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, called in for decision by the Secretary of State amid intense local opposi…

The UK's largest designated AI Growth Zone — a 1.1 GW data centre campus at the former power-station land at Cambois near Blyth, with £10bn committed by Blackst…

A 2,150-home garden village on 254 acres of former green belt agricultural land at Godley, Hyde — refused and then approved by Tameside's planning panel amid th…

A 1,300-home garden village on 159 hectares of green belt east of the M6, refused unanimously after 1,250 public objections — the developer is considering an ap…

A garden village of around 1,600 homes in Knowsley.

A consented hyperscale data centre campus near Lockerbie in southern Scotland.

A strategic development of up to 15,000 homes proposed on greenfield between Reading and Basingstoke — the single largest site in Wokingham's Local Plan discuss…

A hyperscale data centre in the Slough green belt, approved by the Secretary of State after the local council's refusal was overturned in 2025.

A 140 MW data centre on green belt in Buckinghamshire, approved after the Secretary of State overturned the local council's rejection.

A 90 MW hyperscale data centre proposed on green belt at a former landfill beside the M25. Buckinghamshire Council refused it twice; the government called it in…

A 1,300-home scheme on prime agricultural greenfield land near Aylesford, refused by Tonbridge & Malling and then called in by the Minister for Planning for a p…

A 15,000-home garden city in the Thames Estuary, one of England's largest planned developments.

A 5,000-home garden community on 815 acres between Lenham and Charing Heath — the largest single site allocated in Maidstone's 2024 Local Plan, promoted jointly…

A planned garden town of up to 8,500 homes on former racecourse and farmland near Folkestone.

Tunbridge Wells' Local Plan proposed a 2,800-home garden village at Tudeley (Policy AL/CA1) in the green belt — but the allocation has since been judged insuffi…

The UK's first designated AI Growth Zone, at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Culham site in Oxfordshire.

A ~1,800-home scheme on the former Dunsfold aerodrome in the Surrey green belt.

A ~2,000-home scheme on green belt at the former Three Farms Meadows / RHS Wisley site in Guildford, fought through appeal.

A planned 8,000-home new town east of Exeter — the largest new settlement in Devon for decades.

A 5,500-home new town on the edge of Plymouth.

The North Wales AI Growth Zone, split between Prosperity Parc on Anglesey and Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd.

A garden village of up to 3,500 homes on the former Long Marston airfield site near Stratford-upon-Avon.