VIDEO SERIES: Your concerns about the Local Plan Update

We're consulting on a revised growth strategy as part of our Local Plan Update, which will outline where new housing and other forms of development should go until 2038. On this page, our executive member for planning and enforcement Cllr Wayne Smith answers your most frequently asked questions.

Please also read this detailed explanation of how we arrived at the proposal.

Can't we just refuse to take these new homes?

What if we did refuse to take them?

Why are you accepting this number and not challenging it?

What about claims that the Arborfield major development has no infrastructure?

Can't you build all these homes on previously developed land?

Why propose development at Hall Farm / Loddon Valley?