- may have to be built under proposals for mandatory targets, councillors have heard.
- Councillors were told that at least 1,251 homes a year would have to built if the Government presses ahead with plans for targets, compared to 822-a-year proposed in the draft Local Plan.
Liberal Democrat Cllr Nigel Ayre said it could create a development free-for-all while Labour’s Cllr Kate Ravilious said targets should take the scale of developments and the environment into account.
It comes as Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayer said imposing targets would help to tackle the national housing crisis when she unveiled them and proposals to overhaul the planning system.
Labour’s Ms Rayner added in July that they aimed to support the Government’s aim to build 1.5 million new homes in the next five years.
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