Dacorum’s draft Local Plan is currently open to consultation
Thursday, 4th February 2021, 12:45 pm
The Liberal Democrat Group of Dacorum Borough Council has written to the MP for Hemel Hempstead and the MP for South West Hertfordshire seeking their support to have new planning targets for Dacorum reconsidered.
In December the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCGL) changed its formula for calculating local authority housing targets.
This was because, according to the MHCGL’s document, …in some places the numbers proposed by the standard method pose a risk to protected areas and Green Belt .
Cllr William Allen developed the attached map, which shows how many areas with significant amounts of green belt have seen an increase in planning targets