MPs warn Gove’s planning reforms could make housebuilding targets ‘impossible’ to hit

uk housing

A cross-party committee of MPs has been reviewing plans to make planning targets advisory not mandatory

The government’s proposed planning reforms could make meeting annual housebuilding targets “impossible,” according to a report by a cross-party group of MPs. 

The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee has been looking into the government’s plans to scrap mandatory local housing targets. In December last year, the government said it planned to make the targets advisory rather than mandatory. It also plans to remove the need for local authorities to continually demonstrate a deliverable five-year housing land supply.

 

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