Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 21 November 2017.
Well, it is five years since the Planning Inspectorate insisted, or rather rejected Wrexham’s LDP, and also told Denbighshire and Conwy that there wasn’t sufficient housing in their development plans. That decision was based on the population forecasts of the Government, but now, of course, the census has demonstrated that those projections were erroneous and that we didn’t need to increase the number of houses in those plans. Indeed, the original Wrexham LDP was quite close to the mark in terms of the numbers, but the cost of having to redo the LDP in Wrexham alone has been over £200,000. So, who, in your view, should be compensating Wrexham council for that process and for forcing them to return and rerun a process that was clearly unnecessary, was erroneous and was a complete waste of time?