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[[File:West Midlands Green Belt.svg|thumb|300px|Map of the West Midlands Green Belt showing extents, districts and counties.
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The West Midlands Green Belt is a statutory green belt environmental and planning policy that regulates the rural space within the West Midlands region of England. It is contained within the counties of the West Midlands, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Essentially, the function of the green belt is to rigorously manage development around the cities, towns and villages in the large West Midlands conurbations centred around Birmingham and Coventry, discouraging convergence. It is managed by local planning authorities on guidance from central government.
The green belt stretches from Stafford and Telford through to Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Rugby. There is a small isolated portion of green belt separating Droitwich Spa and Worcester. The Stoke-on-Trent and Burton upon Trent/Swadlincote green belts lie around to the north.
Due to the West Midlands green belt extending across several counties, responsibility and co-ordination lies with the many local district councils whose land covers the green belt, as these are the local planning government bodies.
| +Green belt locations !County !District council !Key inset areas !Outlying places | |||
| Shropshire | Shropshire | Albrighton, Shifnal | Telford, Bridgnorth |
| Staffordshire | Cannock Chase | Cannock, Norton Canes | Rugeley |
| Lichfield | Burntwood, Shenstone | Lichfield | |
| South Staffordshire | Codsall, Great Wyrley, Wombourne | Penkridge | |
| Stafford | Cannock Chase AONB | Stafford | |
| Tamworth | Tamworth | ||
| Warwickshire | North Warwickshire | Coleshill | Atherstone |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | Bedworth, Bulkington | Nuneaton | |
| Rugby | Binley Woods, Long Lawford, Wolston | Rugby | |
| Stratford-on-Avon | Alcester, Henley-in-Arden, Studley | Stratford-upon-Avon | |
| Warwick District | Kenilworth | Warwick, Royal Leamington Spa | |
| West Midlands | Birmingham | Sutton Coldfield | |
| Coventry | Brownshill Green | ||
| Dudley | |||
| Sandwell | |||
| Solihull | Balsall Common, Bentley Heath, Cheswick Green, Dickens Heath, Hampton-in-Arden, Meriden | ||
| Walsall | |||
| Wolverhampton | |||
| Worcestershire | Bromsgrove | Alvechurch, Barnt Green, Bromsgrove, Hollywood | |
| Redditch | Feckenham | ||
| Worcester | Claines | Worcester | |
| Wychavon | Hartlebury, Martin Hussingtree, Wychbold | Droitwich Spa | |
| Wyre Forest | Kidderminster | Bewdley |
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