East Riding Council will need to approve plans to build around 2,000 new homes a year to meet the government’s new targets.
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.
After announcing the ambitious targets, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Angela Rayner, said:
“Getting Britain building means stripping away unnecessary barriers to growth to deliver the homes that we so desperately need.
“For years, vital housing and infrastructure projects have been tied up in red tape leaving communities without the homes, infrastructure and jobs they need.
“Our Plan for Change will put an end to the status quo while restoring nature. It’s win-win for development and our environment, including targeted reforms allowing us to use the economic benefits of growth to fund tangible and targeted action for nature’s recovery.”
In August, each council in England was given an individual target of homes to build per year. Despite the overall national target going down, some councils, predominantly in the South, have had their targets increased.
Many councils in the North and the Midlands have seen their targets get reduced. East Riding Council is one of those, with its target falling to 1,924 homes a year, a reduction of 164.
The council have 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.”
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