Back to the drawing board for Rotherham
The council has been told to create a new Local Plan and review its Green Belt land following the doubling of the borough’s new-build housing target.
Rotherham’s current plan is based on 544 homes being built each year but that figure was pushed up to 1,111 last December by the government.
Planning inspectors have now informed the council that the increase requires a complete re-do of the blueprint for the area’s future housing, rather than simply tacking-on extra housing to the partly completed existing plan.
At a cabinet meeting on 15 September a timetable will be presented detailing the key stages of creating a new Local Plan, which includes a start date of October 2026, public consultations in 2027 and 2028, and submission to government of the newly created plan in winter of 2028.
If approved, it would then be adopted the following year.
The process is estimated to cost more than £1m, and will include a full review of Green Belt in the borough funded by a government grant of £70,000.
Why aren’t they building on brownsites? LEAVE GREEN SPACES ALONE.
By Alf Shufflebotham
Greenfield is a Psyop created by Boomers to stop communities growing naturally.
Build houses, build shops, build industrial sites, and invest loads of money into communities and rewilding projects to help keep everything balanced.
Ignore mental nimbys.
By Tyke