Labour will end the planning crisis

Communities are rightly angry about the number of housing estates springing up on the green edges of our towns and villages. This flood of speculative housing developments is directly caused by Government changes to planning rules and the failure of Conservative controlled Cheshire East Council to have a Local Plan.

Dr Darren Price, Labour's Parliamentary candidate for Middlewich, is a housing and planning expert and says: “The Conservatives have relaxed regulation and effectively allowed developers to build houses on the greenfield sites, which make them the most profit. Labour will give more power to local people to redress the balance. We will not reduce the number of houses being built, but change where they are built by giving a greater voice to communities. We will also change the type of houses being built because we desperately need more truly affordable homes.

"The real problem is the  effect that all of these unregulated new homes are having on the existing infrastructure of our towns and villages. Roads simply cannot cope with the additional traffic, it’s taking longer to see a GP and there is an increasing problem with school places. That is why I'm backing the petition organised by Middlewich Labour Candidates to get the by-pass built.''