Let's be absolutely clear about housing in this country and what the Campaign to Protect Rural Englands works for!

There IS an identified shortage of affordable and social housing, we all know this and accept it.  

There’s NO identified need for, or identified shortage of detached executive homes.

When will someone join up the dots and recognise this trend

Apply for planning permission, promise to build a solid quota of affordable homes then apply to half the number of the homes we really need?

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/16085472.Developer_moves_step_closer_to_starting_work_on_Wyvern_Park_housing_and_business_park_for_Skipton/

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/16069760.Skipton_Wyvern_Park_developer_set_to_get_proposed_changes_to_mixed_housing_and_business_scheme_agreed_next_week/

Both the Telegraph and the Independent recently reported that planning permissions have been granted for 420-423k homes.