A council leader has spoken of her anger at a government decision to hike the number of houses required to be built in Shropshire.
Council leader 'extremely angry' after government demands hundreds of extra homes a year from Shropshire Council
Under the demands the number of houses required to be built per year in the Shropshire Council area is set to increase from 1,070 to 1,994. Those proposals, which were put on hold by planning inspectors last month, propose increasing the number of homes built by the council from 1,070 to 1,450 - still substantially lower than new government targets.
"Why should rural England be expected to build the houses that the major cities cannot bring themselves to build?" She added:"The changes to the NPPF will make demonstrating sufficient housing supply by local authorities almost impossible , thus opening up green fields and even the green belt to development, regardless of local views.
A statement published by the government announcing the decision said:"The government is today turbocharging growth with new, mandatory targets for councils to ramp up housebuilding across the country. The planning overhaul is set to tackle the chronic housing crisis once and for all and will mean hard graft at work will be rewarded with security at home."
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