More than half of the Cabinet could see a major rise in
the number of houses built in their back yards under a controversial planning
algorithm. Ministers have introduced a formula for deciding how many homes are
needed in each local authority in a bid to meet a national target of 300,000
new homes a year. Boris Johnson is under pressure to ditch the system following
concerns that greenfield sites will be built on simply because the algorithm
claims more homes are needed. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s local district
in Elmbridge, Surrey, planned to build 225 new homes a year but the algorithm
states that 774 are needed. Read more on the Mailonline.
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