Is Boris Johnson heading to war with Tory voters over housebuilding?

Tory shire councils will be forced to hand over planning power to government

Housing
Tory shire councils will be forced to hand over planning power to government
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Boris Johnson has courted controversy within his own party after it was revealed that plans to expand government home building will remove powers from a number of Conservative-led councils.

Johnson’s reform of planning laws will take control over the rate of building out of the hands of local governments and hand these powers to No. 10, which intends to “distribute” an annual target of 300,000 homes among the local authorities, The Times reports.

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