ABSTRACT
This chapter examines recent housing debates across England, focusing on debates around new and existing planning techniques for controlling where new housing is located, from the long-standing green belt policy (see Chapter 4) to new techniques such as the sequential test, brownfield targets and urban capacity studies (Table 5.1). These techniques have been centrally involved in debates about how best to guide urban development, and the balance between urban and rural development, providing both a focus for debate and a way of legitimising certain approaches rather than others.
