Residential Development Applications

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:56 pm on 23 January 2019.

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Photo of Llyr Gruffydd Llyr Gruffydd Plaid Cymru 2:56, 23 January 2019

But there's an even more fundamental issue here, of course: what is the local housing need? Your Government has actually told local authorities now that your population projections are outdated, and they were the basis, of course, for the local development plans that people are concerned about, and we've seen the allocation of additional land for housing and a need that, clearly, simply just doesn't exist. So, will you accept that that was wrong? And will you also now, therefore, instruct your officials to allow councils to de-allocate greenfield sites in order to protect our environment and communities?