David Cameron chose Newton Abbot over the weekend to launch his policy on more housebuilding and the threat to impose numbers on Local Authorities which do not have a Local Plan.

This seems a strange venue. Teignbridge adopted its Local Plan in 2014. In it, it choose not to adopt the “supporting high economic growth” target that EDDC prefers.

Based on the lower demographic, Teignbridge had a target of 620 houses a year. If EDDC had gone down this route, its equivalent would be 584 houses a year (10,512 over 18 years).

Teignbridge with its lower target gets the PM’s praise, EDDC gets nothing.

Strange that …