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Conservative Group Leader Cllr Stewart Gardiner presented his Notice of Motion, challenging the Government’s Housing Targets at Full Council today. The motion was seconded by Cllr Steve Edgar (Haslington Ward). Cllr Gardiner who has a professional background in the planning industry spoke eloquently of the impacts of the proposed 150% rise in housing numbers every year and which has opened the floodgates for a maelstrom of unplanned, speculative and unsustainable planning applications by developers. This ill-considered policy gives free-rein to a developer-led planning system where local democratic input is minimised and both local development plans and neighbourhood plans are undermined. It was interesting that both Labour and Independent Groups presented additional amendments to the Notice of Motion that (unusually) actually enhanced the motion. Cllr Nick Manion (CE Council Leader: Labour) proposed an amendment that highlighted the need for targets that must focus on local housing need - specifically social rented and affordable housing. Cllr Craig Browne (Ind) proposed that an amendment that sought additional support by all Party Group Leaders to engage with the Local Government Association to support our remonstrations to the Minister Angela Raynor MP and her Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both Cllr Gardiner and Cllr Edgar accepted both amendments as ‘friendly amendments’ and they have been incorporated into the substantive Notice of Motion. Click on the link below for the full article ⬇️ https://www.cheshireeastconservatives.co.uk/news/ce-conservatives-challenge-governments-housing-targets-receives-unanimous-support-all-parties