Every council is required to have in place a Local Plan - a housing plan to show where its housing will be built for the next five years... updated on a rolling basis. Unfortunately, like about 20% of councils, Newcastle's plan is more in their head than on paper. So whilst they know that they WILL be able to meet the area's requirements and they know WHERE in the borough they NEED to build, it is not a plan that the Government accepts.
This leaves them in a dangerous position because Eric Pickles' Department for Communities and Local Government, which promises "localism" with one hand, also gives developers almost a free hand to ride rough-shod over local planning authorities. This is because Nick Boles, Housing Minister, seems intent to drive bulldozers over the very green fields that Eric Pickles says he will protect.
Baldwins Gate Action Group met outside the Civic Offices to make councillors aware of their campaign to STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF BALDWINS GATE by a development which would increase the village population by around 50%.
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