Imposed Housing Targets - Dacorum, St Albans and Mysterious Case of the Missing Cap
The Housing Targets Imposed by the Government, or The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cap (Easy Read Version). The Office of National Statistics is charged with estimating all sorts of things, but among them the demand in the community for more houses. Everyone knows we should be building new houses. The government thinks we should build 300,000 a year in the UK. They put that in their manifesto and they were re-elected in December 2019 with a large majority. So the government said, "The people voted for our manifesto to build 300,000 houses per year - and build them we will!" And to make that happen they took powers to force councils to build the share of the 300,000 that they, the government, wanted. So the government said to Dacorum Borough Council, "You must build 922 houses a year. There's lots of land round the edge of Hemel Hempstead and round Tring and Berkhamsted, so shut up and build! We don't care if it's Green Belt, we don't care if it's wall-to-wall houses from Westminister to Ayl
