The Government commissioned this research to augment the evidence base for the forthcoming Examination in Public (EiP) into the draft Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) for the South East. It is an independent technical exercise using publicly available information to consider the impacts and implications of accommodating levels of growth above that proposed by the South East of England Regional Assembly.
The intention in commissioning the work is to make sure that the evidence is available to inform an open and wide ranging debate about all these issues at the EiP.
This report is not intended to pre-empt the RSS process, it is not a statement of Government policy and does not signal any preference for particular housing numbers on the part of Government. The consultants were not required to provide a critique of the draft RSS or the evidence base underpinning it. Nor were they asked to recommend an optimum level of growth or an optimum distribution for levels of growth tested.
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