In a new report, the Centre for London recommends that the mayor and Ministers create development corporations at ten key sites within the green belt, close to railway stations. It argues that despite the green belt's name, the land surrounding the city "contains many areas of low ecological quality, the loss of which would not necessarily harm our climate goals or people's access to high quality natural spaces".
The most famous development corporation was created by environment secretary Michael Heseltine in London's docklands in 1980, resulting in the creation of the financial district at Canary Wharf and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR).
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