Government ‘Heaping Pressure’ On Councils Over Housing Targets

With the HRA borrowing cap lifted, government has to stop “heaping pressure” on councils to deliver unrealistic housing targets that erode Green Belt land, the CPRE has said. CPRE planning campaigner Rebecca Pullinger says analysis of new MHCLG stats shows that for too long housebuilders have been able to use land as a tool to “manipulate and monopolise the market only to serve their own interests”. “Instead, developers should be held more accountable to deliver the homes that they have promised,” Pullinger says. The MHCLG says its stats show the Green Belt is 24,500 hectares bigger than it was in 1997 – taking into account land reclassified as a national park. Read more on 24housing.

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