One responsibility of Government is to ensure we have enough housing in the UK to accommodate all those who are resident here. We also have national planning policy to ensure that what is built is of a suitable standard and is desirable. Further to this, on a local level, we generate a strategy to help guide development so that it is, for example, sympathetic to our local environment. Finally, on an even more local level, we might develop a Neighbourhood Plan to inform developers of what is really important in our villages or where, specifically, we want houses to be built. The problem with all of this strategy and policy is that unscrupulous developers can run rough-shod over it if the total number of houses available in Wiltshire does not hit a Government-set target. This target, the "5 Year Housing Land Supply" is open to manipulation and can, in most cases, overrule every piece of planning policy we set. The purpose of the 5 Year Housing Land Supply target (5YHLS) is to provide an indication of whether there are sufficient sites available to meet the housing requirement for the next 5 years. Where strategic policies are more than 5 years...