Our views on planning and housing

In the local election campaign, we called for an acceleration of the Council’s own home building programme. We'd review the allocation of large housing developments on greenfield sites, and there would be no more dual applications for the same site from big developers (we'd outlaw it). We'd control planning permissions on greenfield sites more tightly to avoid disasters like Chapel Rd, Grundisburgh and Victoria Mill Rd, Framlingham. We'd also pause Felixstowe and A14 corridor developments.

We'd increase affordable housing targets. What we would like to see is a doubling of the target for new truly affordable homes per year to 200 in Suffolk Coastal. We would also like developers of sites of 10 or more homes to include 50% affordable homes in their plans. To prevent new homes from being used as second homes, new homes should carry a permanent requirement to be a main residence, and we support the notion of 100% Council tax premium on second homes.