The number of new homes Lancashire is expected to build each year will more than double following the government’s overhaul of the planning system.
The number of new homes Lancashire is expected to build each year will more than double following the government’s overhaul of the planning system. The county’s minimum annual housebuilding target has gone from fewer than 2,900 properties to just over 6,500 – a 128 percent increase of more than 3,600 dwellings.
However, that collective rise masks some even bigger leaps within Lancashire’s 14 individual council areas – two of which will be required to deliver a more than six-fold annual hike in new housing. A trio of others will see their targets more than treble, while the expected tallies will be more than doubled in all bar three local authority patches. Some places are already exceeding the figures laid down under the previous system, which was scrapped under the last Conservative government 12 months ago when the targets became only advisory. The total now being demanded of Lancashire has reduced by almost 650 compared to the number suggested in a consultation into the proposals launched in the summer – with most areas seeing dozens of dwellings shaved off their previously-proposed minimum yearly requirements. The new mandatory targets brought in by Labour are the basis of the party’s push to build 1.5 million homes nationwide over the next five years. Across Lancashire, Burnley will see the largest proportional increase in the homes it is expected to deliver annually – up by 567 percent – followed by Hyndburn with a 502 percent rise. The biggest numerical increase will be in Blackpool, where an extra 438 properties will be required each year, while West Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen will have to build more than 370 extra each
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