The West of England metro mayor has criticised the Government for imposing “high housing numbers” on the region with demands for up to 105,000 new homes over the next 20 years.
Labour’s Dan Norris says Whitehall is “continuing to force our hand using a system that’s already failed” the area, which is in the middle of producing a blueprint for where people will live, work and play in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Bath & North East Somerset up to 2041.
The regional mayor, who leads the West of England Combined Authority (Weca), has hit back after South Gloucestershire Council leader Cllr Toby Savage claimed Mr Norris was freezing him out of vital talks and refusing his input into the Spatial Development Strategy (SDS).
