{"id":374010,"date":"2026-08-28T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/residents-protest-as-uk-looks-to-grey-belts-to-solve-uk-housing-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:00:07","slug":"residents-protest-as-uk-looks-to-grey-belts-to-solve-uk-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/residents-protest-as-uk-looks-to-grey-belts-to-solve-uk-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents protest as UK looks to &#8216;grey belts&#8217; to solve UK housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/aYz6age_kw0\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Residents protest as UK looks to 'grey belts' to solve UK housing crisis\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aYz6age_kw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Labour has promised to create 1.5 million new homes during this parliament. Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants to see more social housing. So if they build it &#8211; where will it go? <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Grey Belt &#8211; a new designation which is meant to include previously developed land in the green belt &#8211; sites like old car parks and former petrol stations.<\/p>\n<p>But critics say these potential rebuilding plans would mean the loss of much valued green landscapes.  <\/p>\n<p>Producer Mark Little<br \/>\nFilmed &amp; Directed by Nick Blakemore<br \/>\nAssistant Producer: Jo Heywood<br \/>\nEditor &#8211; Einav Leshetz Lovatt<\/p>\n<p>Analysis by:<br \/>\nMia Jones<br \/>\nTim Gribble<br \/>\nCaitlin Holtzman<br \/>\nMark Little<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour has promised to create 1.5 million new homes during this parliament. Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants to see more social housing. So if they build it &#8211; where will it go? [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] Enter the Grey Belt &#8211; a new designation which is meant to include previously developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-374010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Residents protest as UK looks to &#039;grey belts&#039; to solve UK housing crisis | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Residents protest as UK looks to &#039;grey belts&#039; to solve UK housing crisis for free, here on News ISC. 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