Angela Rayner told 'come and see for yourself' amid fury over 8,400 new homes

Swale assembly calls connected Angela Rayner to sojourn (Image: Getty)

Councillors successful Swale person called connected Angela Rayner, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, to wage a sojourn to the sites that she has marked to physique thousands of caller homes.

Officials person invited the lawman premier curate to spot the sites earlier deciding whether it’s due to physique determination oregon not. The calls are up of an enquiry into the Highsted Park improvement adjacent Sittingbourne and Teynham which begins connected March 11.

Ms Rayner revealed the program for 8,400 homes to beryllium constructed conscionable hours earlier Swale council’s readying committee was expected to cull the proposals.

The caller property would screen the borderline of Sittingbourne and spill into Teynham, splitting crossed 2 applications. The archetypal exertion includes a assemblage space, hotel, recycling centre and superior and secondary schools.

Councillor's called connected Swale assembly to invitation Angela Rayner to the sites she plans to physique connected (Image: Getty)

This is for onshore surrounding Sittingbourne, with 2 halves named Highsted Village and Oakwood Village. The 2nd exertion is for a smaller country named Teynham West, with proposals of 1,250 caller homes positive sheltered and other attraction accommodation and a superior school.

On January 29, section councillors called connected Swale assembly to widen an invitation to Ms Rayner, asking her to question from London to the municipality to physically spot the interaction that her determination volition have.

Prior to the gathering yesterday, Cllr Julien Speed, who prompted the petition alongside Conservative workfellow Cllr Lloyd Bowen, said: “Looking astatine the readying study does not bring what the country is similar to life.

“Highsted Park, which has been called a plot colony but is truly a municipality the size of Faversham successful presumption of expected population, is simply a trial lawsuit for the authorities and its lodging targets.

Labour purpose to physique 1.5 cardinal caller homes implicit the adjacent 5 years (Image: Getty)

“So it is important for the caput of authorities to travel and spot it for herself and perceive to the views of radical surviving present earlier she makes her decision.”

Cllr Speed has further accused the authorities of “ripping it away” from the “democratically elected section council” pursuing the determination for a nationalist inquiry.

The plans travel Labour’s announcement of a cardinal manifesto pledge of gathering 1.5 cardinal caller homes implicit the adjacent 5 years. Despite this, Ms Rayner told a lodging prime committee connected January 7 that this fig would lone marque a “dent” successful the UK’s lodging crisis.

Express.co.uk has contacted Swale Council for comment.