Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.

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And the planners' report argued that green-field developments were "most likely" to meet the increasing need for affordable homes.

BBC: Plans for more than 300 homes in Newport approved

Families looking for houses, not apartments, might want to consider Hongqiao or Songjiang west, and south of the city centre for their Western-style developments with green space.

BBC: Living in: Shanghai

"We are not setting a precedent and we will continue to fight any new developments in the green belt, " he added.

BBC: Twyford Orchards Gypsy site: Green belt expansion plan

In 2010 the council cut the requirement for the amount of affordable housing from 50% to 25% on brown-field developments and from 50% to 35% on green-field sites.

BBC: Developer criticises York's housing plan

"What the Conservatives would end up doing is having lots of in-fill developments of a few homes here and there across a rash of green spaces, " he added.

BBC: Nick Clegg