Damian Hinds MP discusses East Hampshire housing targets

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The government must rethink its formula for housing targets, according to Damian Hinds, MP for East Hampshire. Opening the Westminster Hall debate on housing targets in rural areas, which he secured this week, Damian argued that the new formula places undue emphasis on building in the countryside.

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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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