Our MP Don Foster has been campaigning against the Whitehall imposed targets that will see Bath and North East Somerset forced to build over 21,000 homes within the next 20 years.  The rate of new home building has slowed significantly, and this target is unachievable as well as unwanted. 

There should be new affordable housing, but it should be local residents and the local Council who are best placed to decide how many homes are appropriate, not the Government.  Liberal Democrats have always believed in letting local people have the final say on local issues.

Don has signed a petition calling on the Prime Minster to scrap the centrally imposed RSS targets.  We hope many local residents would also be interested in signing up to oppose this scheme.  The link is: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/SuspendRSS/