Lewes’ Housing Delivery Test result overturned

Housebuilding

District council had issued a High Court challenge over HDT’s 50% score

Lewes district council is celebrating after a government u-turn meant the Sussex local authority had passed its Housing Delivery Test.

Figures originally published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) earlier this year showed Lewes district council had only delivered half of the housing required under its adopted local plan in the previous three years.

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