Angela Rayner sets new housing targets in planning overhaul

Labour additionally plans to vary how the targets are calculated, together with by ditching a 35% “uplift” for the most important city areas launched by Tories and tweaking how the formulation accounts for housing affordability.

Official paperwork present the adjustments will imply councils general will now need to plan for round 370,000 properties yearly, as an alternative of the present 305,000.

However some city areas beforehand lined by the uplift, that are largely Labour-run, will see their targets go down.

The annual quota for London, the place the uplift at the moment applies to every particular person borough, is about to drop from slightly below 99,000 properties to round 80,000.

Birmingham’s goal is about to drop from 7,174 to 4,974, and Coventry’s will go down from 3,081 to 1,527.

A few of these councils have beforehand complained the uplift targets had been unrealistic. Ms Rayner stated London’s determine would nonetheless be a “big ask” and the earlier goal was “absolute nonsense”.

She admitted that a few of the new targets could be “shocking” – however argued the previous system had produced some “odd outcomes”.

Nonetheless, the adjustments had been criticised by shadow housing secretary and Tory management hopeful Kemi Badenoch, who stated it will lead to extra uncertainty.

She additionally argued it might drive suburban and rural areas to take housing from Labour-held inside metropolis areas.