The Green Belt for the West Midlands was originally drawn up by the region's planning authorities working jointly in the 1950s and 1960s following the issue of the Duncan Sandys Circular of 1955. A single proposed Green Belt around the Birmingham conurbation and Coventry was announced by 1964.
The Staffordshire County Council consulted on and took through to adoption the Staffordshire Green Belt in the 1970s. Parallel planning at the Regional level of planning in the Black Country defined inner Green Wedges.
It is important that through the Dtc there is a clear and transparent audit trail to support a spatial policy that delivers Spatial Option H2 based on re-definition of the Regeneration Corridor north of Woverhampton extending into South Staffordshire covering the travel to work zone that extends to includes the I54 site the Strategic Rail Freight site at 4 Ashes and new housing in locations linked to this corridor.
Sues through changes to the Green Belt in WCC/South Staffordshire need to be of sufficient minimum size to deliver linked infrastructure facilities and services including local retail, schools, and community facilities.