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Lib Dems Voice New Concerns On Mass Housing
November 17, 2009 11:32 AM
Richard Burt today issued further rejection of the draft Regional Spatial Strategy, which along with the South Worcestershire Joint Core Strategy (SWJCS) would result in mass housing across West Worcestershire.
Liberal Democrats have uncovered that planning inspectors can use the draft strategy to overrule planning applications that local councils may have rejected - even though the document is yet to be finalised and approved by Government. Recent correspondence from the Planning Inspector confirms this is the case.
Richard said: "This latest revelation showed that the Government was intent on imposing its views on local people; it is now time for the Government to scrap the RSS altogether and realise that local people are best placed to identify how their housing needs should best be met.
"The whole process is completely discredited and unpopular. Instead of trying to impose their plans through the back door, the Government should abandon them altogether and allow local councils to determine their own priorities.
"The Conservative alternative is no better. Under their plans, council decisions on housing development would be driven by the prospect of cash bonuses. Both approaches spell disaster for communities, and would put local needs at the bottom of the priority list."
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