Whilst it might suit Councillor Moulding to blame everyone but his party for the mess we are in with the Local Plan, one wonders what his explanation for this might be:
Perhaps Surrey has an equivalent of EDA which he thinks may be stalling houses and encouraging golf courses!
The same article in The Observer today makes the point that once inflation is discounted, house prices have gone up fivefold since 1955 and land for houses has increased by 15-fold in the same period.