Enfield Council has withdrawn from the government's new towns programme after a change in political control, scrapping plans for a large housing development on green belt land.

Enfield Council, now under Conservative leader Alessandro Georgiou, has withdrawn from the government's new towns programme, halting the planned 21,000-home development at Crews Hill and Chase Park on green belt land, in a blow to Labour's flagship housebuilding scheme and a potential test of Rachel Reeves' planning changes.