I was poring over some of the figures produced by one of the big consultancies about what the proposed changes mean in terms of housing need, and in London it means the numbers more than double, and in Hertfordshire & Essex they more than triple !. Conversely, the only two areas where the housing need figures will be reduced from what they currently is Cumbria & Lancashire and Yorkshire & the Humber. The White Paper sets a target of 337,000 new homes being delivered a year across England, in the year up to June 2019 a total of 173,660 new units were completed, which was the highest figure in the previous 11 years. In the last 19 years the population of England has increased by an average of 371,247 people per year.  Last year it increased by 361,000 people, the lowest increase since 2014. In light of this, can anyone therefore explain why we need 337,000 additional homes per year, which effectively means that for ever 1 new member of the population we need 0.91 new houses (based upon average population growth over the last 19 years) or 0.93 new houses (based upon population growth last year) ?. Oh, and the best bit of all, 78% of the 173,660 new residential units last year were family sized houses.  The maths simply don't add up...

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Thin end of that wedge..........	06/08/20 14:02:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Thin end of that wedge..........	06/08/20 15:43:00	Raymond Havelock
Re:Thin end of that wedge..........	06/08/20 16:40:00	Adam Beamish
Re:Re:Thin end of that wedge..........	06/08/20 16:49:00	Adam Beamish
Re:Re:Re:Thin end of that wedge..........	06/08/20 17:07:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Thin end of that wedge..........	06/08/20 21:39:00	Jim Storrar
Re:Re:Re:Thin end of that wedge..........	07/08/20 11:27:00	Adam Beamish
Re:Re:Re:Re:Thin end of that wedge..........	07/08/20 12:48:00	Vanessa Smith

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