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Housing secretary intervenes to prevent Surrey council from withdrawing local plan
Rowley said withdrawal of the local plan would result in the council having one of the oldest adopted local plans in the country
Michael Gove has made a direction that the government will intervene in Mole Valley District Council’s local plan, after the council proposed to vote on withdrawing its local plan.
In a letter dated 25 January, the minister of state for housing, Lee Rowley MP, informed Stephen Cooksey, the leader of Mole Valley District Council (MVDC) that the local authority must not withdraw its 2020-2037 local plan, which is currently under examination by the government.
The Surrey council’s last local plan was adopted in 2009, and the letter stated that the emerging local plan is “at a very advanced stage of the examination”.
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