Overdevelopment: London and the South-East

Part of Housing, Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at on 5 October 2020.

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Photo of Theresa Villiers Theresa Villiers Conservative, Chipping Barnet

In March, the Secretary of State wrote a strongly worded letter to the Mayor of London to express concern that his London plan tilts away from family homes towards one-bedroom flats. How does the Secretary of State reconcile the inconsistency between that letter and his new housing algorithm, which will generate such high targets that they are unachievable without tower blocks full of predominantly one-bedroom flats?