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Reference:
2025/3165
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Question by:
Gareth Roberts
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Meeting date:
11 September 2025
You have been warned by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment - a research institute at the London School of Economics - that your plan to build on the Green Belt will increase the risk of Londoners having their lives and homes wrecked by climate change. They said building on the currently protected areas, mostly in the suburbs, would increase the “urban heat island” effect and result in higher risks from heatwaves and wildfires. Without adaptation, London will become a riskier place to live and work. How do you defend your U-turn of building on the...