The government’s planning reforms will lead to a 45% increase in housebuilding in Tory shires.
Conservative MPs have warned Boris Johnson that a “mutant algorithm” at the heart of the planning reforms will lead to overbuilding in the southeast and “permanently disadvantage the North and Midlands.
According to Lichfields, nearly 100,000 homes would be built in Conservative local authorities outside London, a rise of 45%. In Labour-held local authorities the number of new homes would fall by 3%, from 57,148 to 55,500.
