East Riding Council must approve plans to build around 2,000 new homes a year to meet the government’s ambitious plans.
The Government has announced revised targets for the number of homes that councils must approve to be built in their areas.
As part of the Labour party’s pledge to ‘get Britain building’, in August the Government tasked local authorities in England to build 371,541 new homes a year. This target has this week been revised and slightly lowered to 370,408 new homes a year.
In August, each council in England was given an individual target of homes to build per year.
Many councils in the North and the Midlands have now seen their targets reduced. East Riding Council is one of those, with its target falling to 1,924 homes a year, a reduction of 164.
The council has provided the following statement on the revised new homes targets: “East Riding of Yorkshire Council is in the final stages of updating its local plan, which provides the framework for managing development in the East Riding. We will then take the updated NPPF housing targets into account through the preparation of the new East Riding Local Plan.”
By: Andrew Spence, LDRS
