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Article: New homes cut for the South-East
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 19, 2000
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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 taking proper
account of the region's future housing needs" when it recommended
only 33,000 new homes a year.
It says that in the absence of advice from Serplan on how the new
homes should be distributed across the ...