New homes cut for the South-East

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: December 19, 2000| Author: MIRA BAR-HILLEL | Copyright information

THE GOVERNMENT has cut the number of new homes to be built in the South-East from 43,000 to 39,000 for each of the next five years.

It has effectively dismissed what it calls "the rigid 'predict and provide' approach" taken by Government-appointed inspectors led by Professor Stephen Crow who provoked an outcry earlier this year when they proposed a higher figure.

But in a statement today, the Government also blames the South- East Regional Planning Authority (Serplan) for "not ...

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