Stop Government plans to prioritise sky high housing targets and bypass local communities

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Stop Government plans to prioritise sky high housing targets and bypass local communities

Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, & Secretary of State for Housing

Help stop a planning tragedy becoming a disaster

Our planning system is a mess, with not enough powers for local councils, residents and planning committees, and our green fields and environmental protection are at risk.

The Labour Government have a chance to fix this. But they are set on making things worse. They want to force through sky high targets for housing, generated by government algorithm, even though in many places there just aren’t enough suitable places to build, as councils up and down the country have told them.

They also want to by-pass planning committees for many major developments. Officials will be able to rubber stamp huge developments in places like Newhaven, Ringmer, Barcombe, Chailey, Hamsey, Wivelsfield and Newick – and we’ll lose even the limited say your local councillors have currently.

Tell the Government you want them to stop the power-grab, and give more powers to local areas, not strip them away.

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emily obrien

Newhaven, United Kingdom

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Lewes District Green Party

To: Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, & Secretary of State for Housing
From: [Your Name]

Dear Ms Rayner,

Your recent announcements that you will force through unrealistic housing targets and "bypass planning committees entirely " puts local communities and environmental protection at serious risk.

Evidence shows the planning system is not responsible for the delays you are blaming on it. Developers are already sitting on over 1 million planning permissions which they delay building because the systems allows them to maximise their profits.

Your new measures will tilt our planning system still more towards bloated developer profits, at the expense of our green fields and our communities.

We urge you to give more local powers to local areas and local planning committees, instead of stripping them away. We urge you to invest in council house building, which evidence shows is the real answer to the housing crisis. And we urge you to protect the environment and enhance biodiversity, rather than protecting the big developers who should be penalised when they fail to deliver.