Public invited to give view on district’s housing targets

The authority is expecting to carrying on building houses at the pre-recession rate, of 1,500 a year, completing a total of 25,500 new homes by 2028. Last time the proposals were aired in the summer of 2010, they sparked 2,250 comments.

Residents are being invited to a series of consultation events starting on November 22 at Hessle and Withernsea libraries and continuing until December 8, with a final session at Cottingham library.

The consultation is on the draft Core Strategy, the main planning document for the Local Development Framework. Once adopted, the Core Strategy will guide decisions on the location of new housing, businesses, shopping, leisure and community facilities to 2028, and will replace the existing Local Plans.

Under the plans the most houses, 3,570 would be built in Bridlington, with 3,188 in Beverley, 2,423 in Driffield and 1,913 in Goole.

As a result of responses last time, officials have reduced the number of new houses proposed in ‘rural service centres’. However villages will still see major changes – Holme on Spalding Moor will have another 170 homes, as will Leven and Stamford Bridge, for example. Aldbrough would have 96 more, Wetwang 66 and Keyingham 85.

One proposal is to allow small-scale housing development of usually no more than five homes in villages like Barmby Moor, Nafferton and Woodmansey.

Next summer there will be a further six-week public consultation before the final version is submitted to the Government.

An “examination in public” – which is similar to a public inquiry – will allow objectors to have their say again in 2013, before the planning blueprint if formally adopted.