00:00The new formula, the government needs an overall 50% uplift in housing numbers but in many
00:06areas it goes up by a lot more than that and my area, East Hampshire, is one of them. Our
00:11target goes up from 575 to 1,142. It's an increase of 98%. Let's just call it doubling.
00:21But that's not that unusual. The library paper that colleagues will have seen looked at 58
00:28mainly or largely rural local authorities. They found that all of them had an increase,
00:32two-thirds of them had an increase above 50% and the average increase in those rural areas
00:36in the target was 71%. Meanwhile, for urban areas, the increase is much, much lower, more
00:44like 16 or 17% on average and quite a few places actually see a fall, including large
00:51parts of London and Birmingham. And again, the library analysis found that 37 out of
00:57the 41 local authorities with a decrease were urban.
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