Secretary of state Michael Gove has been accused of fuelling the housing crisis amid a deeping row with housebuilders.
The Home Builders Federation said Gove’s approach to planning would lead to “fewer new homes” being built after he blocked a new development in Kent because it was too “generic”.
Yesterday, it was revealed that Berkeley Group, the housebuilder behind the 165-home project, had written a letter to Gove and was preparing a legal challenge to his “irrational” decision.
The HBF said Gove was “personally intervening to block developments that the local authority actually wants to go ahead” and that the outcome would be fewer homes built.
