The chair of the Planning Officers’ Society has described Sadiq Khan’s housing targets in the draft London Plan as “ridiculous and clearly unachievable”.

Mike Kiely, one of the UK’s most experienced local authority planners, said the panel of inspectors scrutinising the plan had been right to recommend a drastic cut to the overall housing target contained in the plan, because of an over-reliance on ramping up development on small sites.

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