Local authorities are tasked with building more homes as part of a new planning policy framework.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner were in Cambridgeshire to announce details of planning reformAngela Rayner made the comments as she and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer visited Cambridgeshire to announce a new national planning policy framework.The government now expect them to build a combined total of 5,802 homes per year. The previous yearly figure was 4,627.
She said the government would work with local councils and encouraged them to "look at where they want to see that development crucial infrastructure too". A spokesperson for the service said: "We note today's publication of a housing target for the Greater Cambridge area is 2,309 homes per year. On that basis, the housing target is similar to the figure we're already envisaging for the new Greater Cambridge Local Plan.
In Peterborough, cabinet member for growth and regeneration Nick Thulbourn said the city council was "poised to implement" the mandatory figures in their emerging draft local plan which will go out for public consultation next year.
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