Pro-development or nimby? Which Liz Truss will we get?

By Joey Gardiner2022-09-20T06:00:00

The prime minister says she wants to scrap housing targets, but in 2019 she wanted to build on the green belt. How likely is a return to pro-development principles now she is in office?

“God, it’s depressing.” That’s the view of one senior (pro-housebuilding) Tory party policy insider on Liz Truss’s campaign pledge to ditch so-called “Stalinist” housing targets – something that about which many in both the development and planning sectors are understandably alarmed.

That pledge, effectively putting the new prime minister at odds with the 2019 manifesto promise to build 300,000 homes a year which housing targets are designed to deliver, came as Truss also reassured Conservative members worried about too many houses being built near them by reaffirming her commitment to “local consent” for housing policies.

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