Council Forced To Withdraw Local Plan

Coventry Council has been forced to withdraw its local plan after an inspector found it had not ‘engaged constructively’ with neighbouring local authorities on housing numbers and had breached legal requirements.  The Council has published a letter it had received from the government’s Planning Inspectorate which stated that its plan ‘does not meet the legal requirements of the 2004 Act in that council has not engaged constructively with neighbouring local planning authorities on the strategic matter of the number of houses proposed in the plan’. As a result, the Council must look again at evidence for how many homes it thinks it will need before 2028, alongside its neighbouring councils such as Birmingham Council.  Read more on Inside Housing.