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Inspectors recommend South West homes rise

PlanningResource, 11 January 2008

Planning inspectors yesterday recommended an increase of a fifth in the number of homes planned for South West England to 2026.

The independent panel examining the South West regional spatial strategy recommended that 28,000 homes are built each year in the region.

This compares with a recommendation of 23,060 made by the regional assembly in its draft RSS.

The inspectors' report said: "The draft RSS should be predicated on the number of dwellings implied by the DCLG 2003 household projections and be based on provision for at least 28,000 dwellings per annum..."

Mike Bawden, chair of the assembly's regional planning group said: "The key thing is that any level of growth proposed is sustainable and is accompanied by strategic investment in infrastructure from government, something my local authority colleagues will also be looking for."

The panel report also recommended that at least 35% of these new homes should be affordable, which equates to around 10,000 affordable homes per year.

It also called for the transport aspects of the RSS to be drawn together into a regional transport strategy.

Draft South West RSS Examination in Public Panel Report is available by clicking here.

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