Top-down and mandatory housing targets have never been as unreasonable as the ones being imposed on Somerset by the current Labour government, who say the developer-led approach will reduce house prices – it won’t and it never has. The government is saying our county must allocate land to build 75,000 homes in its new Local Plan. No one denies we need new housing but population growth of this scale and speed has never happened in Somerset’s 1,00…
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