Rival community groups await Horsham council decision on where to locate new homes to meet government targets
A tussle over a plan to build more than 16,000 homes on West Sussex countryside is pitting two of the Conservative party’s biggest donors against each other and “tearing apart” community groups, in the latest housing row to threaten the Tory heartlands.
Horsham district council will reveal this week where it intends to locate new settlements to meet government housing targets, with rival developers parading nine plans to build estates of up to 7,000 homes each on fields edged by areas of outstanding natural beauty and the South Downs national park.
