To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment pursuant to his answer of 20 June Official Report, column 568, if the Brentwood district council local plan which provides for a change of designation from green belt to that of an employment area meets the exceptional circumstances to which he referred.

Brentwood district council has not as yet published its draft local plan for public consultation, prior to placing it on formal deposit, it is during those stages and any subsequent local public inquiry that there will be opportunities to consider whether any proposed changes to the green belt are justified.