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Councils will also be ordered to review green belt boundaries - which were created to prevent urban sprawl - by identifying lower-quality "grey belt" land that can be built on.

Building will be allowed on higher quality green belt land if developers provide the necessary infrastructure and guarantee affordable housing, as well as access to green spaces.

"We have asked to have this site removed from the green belt, as it's no benefit to the green belt," Mr O'Donovan tells BBC News.

Ministers had said that, if a council's housing targets ccould not be met, some protected land known as green belt would be re-labelled grey belt and thereby freed up for development.

A government spokesperson said its changes to the green belt were "just one of the ambitious housing reforms we have set out to solve the housing crisis and boost economic growth".