Interesting to see a number of Council's in the South West have scrapped their housing targets this week, lopping almost 60,000 off the regional requirement in total.
In the same week, the Gloucester, Tewkesbury & Cheltenham Joint Core Strategy team have used the former RSS figures to publish their urban extension outline document, for use as a guideline in determining suitable development sites in the area.
Mixed messages, as always, appearr the dominant form of communication with regard to Planning matters under the coalition, and until we get some more clarification on the incentives on offer for ambitious Councils from Shapps et al., this sort of uncertainty looks set to continue. We could see similar steps taken up and down the UK as Councils struggle to adapt to the interim period ofuncertainty. Watch this space.........
