House Building Target would need to double from 717 houses to 1,466 houses per year.
Six key issues to enable housing reform in Bath & North East Somerset have been set out in a letter to Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Angela Rayner.
Bath & North East Somerset Council leader, Councillor Kevin Guy, has written to the Deputy Prime Minister welcoming the Government’s commitment to tackling the housing crisis but warned the housing target set for B&NES is ‘unrealistic’.
In July the Government set out new mandatory housing targets which would see a significant uplift in the housing numbers that B&NES needs to plan for, increasing from the current 717 houses per annum to 1,466 per annum. The purpose of this increase is to address historic shortfalls in housing delivery and meeting housing needs.
The full BANES newsroom press release and copy of the letter to the Deputy Prime Minister may be found by clicking on the link below.