UK housing developments axed as Tory planning reforms take effect
Councils reverse course on agreed plans after targets diluted despite acute shortage of homes
Councils reverse course on agreed plans after targets diluted despite acute shortage of homes
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Calling the government’s reforms a “grubby concession” to backbenchers who want to block housing development, Matthew Pennycook, shadow housing minister, has pledged that Labour would enact “mandatory targets that bite on individual local planning authorities” if it came to power.
The issue of housing and planning is set to be a point of contention in this year’s general election, with the Centre for Cities think-tank estimating that the UK has a historical backlog of 4mn unbuilt homes, with an average house in England now costing more than 10 times the average salary.
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