Keir Starmer insisted building more homes is more important than the environment today as he vowed to rip up the 'broken' planning system. The PM said he would prioritise 'human beings wanting to have a house'.
Tories warned that Keir Starmer 's housebuilding bonanza will barely keep up with immigration today - even if he hits his target for 1.5million homes over the next five years.
The new framework also imposes mandatory housing numbers on local authorities across the country - many of which have already been condemned as unachievable. The projections included comparisons to existing targets under the current method, first introduced in 2018, as well as the average number of new homes that have actually been built in recent years.
'And to what end? Due to the loosening of restrictions on the visa requirements such as the salary threshold and the scrapping of the Rwanda deterrent, the majority of the homes they deliver will be required for people coming into this country rather than for British citizens.' The Treasury's OBR watchdog has forecast that net annual migration to the UK as a whole will subside to 315,000 a year over the 'medium term' - although that estimate now looks in serious doubt.
Cornwall must build 4,421 homes under Labour's target, up from 2,707 using the old method and more than the 2,650 homes built, on average, in recent years. It was higher than the East of England , South West , North West , West Midlands , East Midlands , Yorkshire and The Humber , and North East .That sparked warning that the changes will trigger a new wave of 'urban sprawl' – which the designation was meant to avoid.
Ministers will also gain new powers to bypass the normal planning process on key infrastructure – such as prisons and the electricity pylons that link new wind and solar farms to the grid. 'Despite an overwhelming consensus from the industry that greater specificity is needed over what land should be removed from the greenbelt and made available to development, the Government has failed to provide this today, though has referenced that there will be further guidance around the grey belt definition in the New Year.
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