The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) has slammed the Government’s claims that it has beaten its 60% target for housing built on brownfield land.
Speaking on behalf of the TCPA, planning guru Professor Sir Peter Hall said: “The figures announced last week are misleading since they represent a percentage of some of the lowest levels of house building this country has ever seen. Only about half the projected number of houses needed last year were actually built, therefore saying that 61% of them were built on brown field sites does not tell the whole story.”
The TCPA said that in the South East last year only 22,000 units were built against an agreed provision by central and local government of 39,000 homes.
Hall added: “The obsession with developing on brownfield sites at all costs has led directly to the escalating crisis of housing supply and affordability in the South East, as everyone can now see.”
EGi News 05/06/02
