Bath and NE Somerset – after a prolonged and difficult consultation agreed on a target of 15300 new homes over the next two decades. The Regional Assembly after a flawed consideration upped this number to over 18K and then the Government flicked a coin and set an absurd number of 21300.

A similar process seems to have been going on across the country. In our case the housing numbers were linked with cloud cuckoo economic numbvers. And that was before the credit crunch. What was already absurd in the middle of last year is now farcical. But still this Labour Government with its head ion the sand is pressing on.  After delay after delay after prevarication we are now told that the Government may finalyy (or not as is the case) givesus an answer to our appeal against 21300 by June (no mention of a year though!!!).

These figures are further distorted by the fact that the Government does not even recognize new build student housing as counting against the figures. Don FosterMP and Cllr Shaun McGall are leading a campaign to at least persuade the Government on this issue.

There is now a petition on No 10 website calling on Gordon to scrap these RSS figures. Please sign it.

You can sign the petition at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/SuspendRSS/