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'Change housing target' call
Macclesfield Express
|July 16, 2025
CHESHIRE East Conservatives are calling on the council's leaders to write to deputy PM Angela Rayner seeking a reduction in the authority's housing target.
The council no longer has a five-year housing land supply since the changes to the national planning policy framework (NPPF) introduced by the Labour government last year.
A notice of motion put forward by Conservative group leader Stewart Gardiner to next week’s meeting of Cheshire East’s full council, acknowledges there is a national need for additional housing.
But it says: “The changes to the NPPF introduced by the Labour government have significantly increased the housing targets for Cheshire East from 977 dwellings per annum (dpa) to 2,461 dpa, an uplift of more than 250 per cent.
This story is from the July 16, 2025 edition of Macclesfield Express.
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