The Council has halted the County Plan yet again. This time because the government is to release a new White Paper on housing in January which may throw the Council’s housing projections out of the window.

The delays to the plan are almost exclusively due the arrogance of the Labour Party in seeking to force through overdevelopment in Durham City, which caused the first plan to be thrown out.

Now their delays have left us caught up in government policy. Hopefully the government will tell the Council that plans to sink Durham City in mass overdevelopment are unacceptable, however nothing would surprise me with the current Tory government.