A PETITION aimed at seeing action over Wokingham borough’s housing targets was delivered on Monday.
A group of Lib Dem councillors headed to Westminster to give the petition to Michael Gove, the minister for levelling up.
The party says that Wokingham is expected to build 16,000 new homes over the next 20 years, something that its group leader, Cllr Clive Jones, says is unfair.
When he launched the petition, he said: “Councils who have worked with developers to deliver high numbers of new homes in the last 15 years should not be expected to do the same again in the next 20 years.”
The party acknowledges that homes are needed, particularly affordable and one-, two-, and three-bed homes and bungalows.
The petition, which gathered several hundred signatures, asked the government to avoid turning Wokingham borough into an urban sprawl.
Cllr Jones said: “On Monday, a group of Lib Dem councillors went to London to deliver our petition to have the number of houses in Wokingham reduced.
“We had a pretty good response.”
