Greenfield

Greenfield is land that has not been previously developed. It includes forestry, agricultural land and buildings, as well as previously developed sites that have now been blended back into the natural landscape . Quite often, when councils and planning departments are looking to release land from the greenbelt for the residential development, they re-designate areas of the greenbelt to greenfield in advance of allowing development to take place. This enables them politically, when they release the land for development, to say that it was taken from greenfield sites and not the beloved greenbelt.