{"id":2457,"date":"2018-09-21T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2018-09-21T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T14:55:08","slug":"fallon-again-urges-housing-secretary-to-lower-housing-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2457","title":{"rendered":"Fallon Again Urges Housing Secretary to Lower Housing Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Michael Fallon has today urged again the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to lower the \u201cwholly unrealistic\u201d housing target of building 13,400 new homes by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The request follows research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which suggested that the Government\u2019s previous house building projection of 210,000 new homes had been downgraded to 159,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sir Michael said: \u201cI have already urged the Housing Secretary to revisit the wholly unrealistic target due to Sevenoaks\u2019s overwhelming amount of Green Belt and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The newly revised ONS\u200e figures show he must not force us to build on the Green Belt when there&#8217;s no need to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2458\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Housing-Target-Sepember-2018.jpg\" alt=\"Housing Target Sepember 2018\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Housing-Target-Sepember-2018.jpg 2448w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Housing-Target-Sepember-2018-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Housing-Target-Sepember-2018-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Housing-Target-Sepember-2018-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Michael Fallon has today urged again the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to lower the \u201cwholly unrealistic\u201d housing target of building 13,400 new homes by 2035. &nbsp; The request follows research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which suggested that the Government\u2019s previous house building projection of 210,000 new homes had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fallon Again Urges Housing Secretary to Lower Housing Target&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[878,676,879,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}