OBJECTORS have protested Waverley's interim housing policy target limiting the number of new homes to 250 a year will not stand up at appeal and leave the borough defenceless in a "developer free for all" without the protection of a Local Plan.

The borough council is required under the National Planning Policy Framework to provide an interim housing target for the purposes of identifying a five-year supply of deliverable housing sites, while it decides what figure it will adopt in its new Local Plan.

It withdrew its previous draft Local Plan after the government inspector warned the 250 new homes a year proposed was too few and was not backed up by an up-to-date housing need assessment.

For full story, see this week's Haslemere Herald.