Public consultation on controversial plans to build 22,000 houses in York has been labelled as “inadequate” by Liberal Democrat Councillors.
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Labour run City of York Council’s eight-week public consultation on the Draft Local Plan, which began earlier this month, has seen the authority print 90,000 consultation leaflets – one for every household in York.
However, residents across York have contacted Lib Dem Councillors with some saying they have received two copies and others saying they are yet to receive a copy.
Problems have been reported in Huntington, Heworth Without, Heslington and Fulford while the Council has been forced to admit that 1-in-4 households in the Chapelfields area failed to receive the leaflets originally intended for them and re-delivery has had to be organised.
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