Two months ago Morgoth explained with his customary eloquence why the Conservative Party, which is funded by business, and in which funding appears a not insubstantial inflow from the construction industry, always but always pushes an immigration and house-building agenda against the express will of its own voters.  The Tories are corporate whores, he said; and of course he is right ...

Communities in large parts of the Conservatives’ traditional heartlands will have to find space for 1.5 million new homes under a “mutant” planning algorithm being considered by the Government.

The plans, reportedly the brainchild of Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings, will deliver an additional five million homes across England over the next 15 years, with nearly a third in rural counties.

The five million target is two million more than the targets already set out in local plans that had been democratically agreed by local councils, according to analysis by the House of Commons library.

Urban areas and communities largely in the north of England are largely let off the requirement for new homes, with shire counties hardest hit by the need for overbuilding, raising fears of a “concreting” over the South.

The analysis shows increases in annual housing forecasts compared to local plans of 181 per cent in east Sussex, 119 per cent in Kent, and 115 per cent in both Surrey and Gloucestershire.

The comments below the line exhibit much frustration, for example:

Paul Wusteman
27 Sep 2020 10:50PM
This is an issue whose time has come. Somehow we have to get it across to the government that continuing increase of the population will not be tolerated.

Flag
Anthony Dobbie
27 Sep 2020 11:27PM
Stop voting for them.

Flag
M N Ogonovsky
27 Sep 2020 11:28PM
@Paul Wusteman Try getting these Tory cretins to listn to reason, they have no need to. Their lives are lush; sod the peasants.