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 The chairman of the South East County Leaders has responded angrily to suggestions that the government must focus on long-term house building targets.
The National Housing and Planning Advice Unit (NHPAU) has advised that up to 3.48 million new homes need to be built by 2020 to help property become more affordable.
But Henry Smith has hit out at the body, claiming that setting such targets only serves to overlook the problems being experienced by homeowners in the current downturn.
He told the Telegraph: "This is economically illiterate and bureaucratic madness, while thousands of hardworking families are struggling to make ends meet the government and its own advisers recommend a house building programme divorced from reality.
"Rather than try and impose yet more unrealistic house-building on the south-east, ministers must work with the South East Counties to ensure that development held up by the credit crunch can go ahead, so that those homes that are needed can be built."
The government has set itself a target of constructing three million new homes by 2020.
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