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City of York Council has published it draft Local Plan – which contains 5,000 fewer houses than expected.

Local publisher York Press reports that between 2015 and 2030, the council proposes to build 16,980 houses in York – the number anticipated was 22,000, however.

Cabinet Member for Planning, Councillor Dave Merrett said that fewer houses would be built as a result of new government guidance and feedback from two public consultations.

The council has included planning for two new gypsy/traveller camps, however – and land for business development which will create an estimated 13,500 jobs.

Reducing the number of houses to be built will also create more green space.

There will be a further public consultation beginning in October and the draft Local Plan will have to be approved by the full council in December, before being submitted to a government inspector. A final decision from the government’s inspector is not likely to be ready until late 2015, after the General Election.

More than 18,000 people responded to the first two consultations. An initial plan, the first local development framework, was scrapped in 2012 after changes to national planning rules.

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