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Gove on collision course with Bishop of Gloucester after latest housing intervention
The Rt Rev Rachel Treweek calls housing secretary’s move ‘incomprehensible’
The Bishop of Gloucester has written to the housing secretary accusing him of personally blocking a 350-home development on Church land.
The Rt Rev Rachel Treweek has written to Michael Gove to explain her “frustration and confusion” at the “recovery” of a planning application for 350 homes in Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, for his own determination.
The Bishop said neither the Church nor the housing developer beyond the project, Miller Homes, had been given any explanation for what she described as an “incomprehensible” move to call the application in.
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