CAMBORNE Town Council has thrown its weight behind a view that the figures for affordable housing used by Cornwall Council to make strategic planning decisions are flawed.
The authority agreed to support St Day Parish Council in its objections to the use of Cornwall Homechoice Register as a tool for determining planning applications.
St Day Parich Council wrote to Cornwall Council leader Jim Currie recently and stated: "St Day Parish Council objects to the current method of using the figure for all applicants in all bands on the Cornwall Homechoice Register to inform strategic planning decisions and when making the case for affordable housing in a particular parish.
"Many of the applicants in band E on the register cannot justifiably be considered for social housing.
"As long as the system continues, with anyone who fulfils the basic criteria being added to the register regardless of their financial circumstances or ability to meet their housing requirements from their own resources, this council has no faith in the validity of the number of applicants on the Homechoice Register as an indicator of housing need in Cornwall."
Last week at the full meeting of Camborne Town Council members agreed to support the parish council in its view.
Mayor Jean Charman said: "The register is fundamentally flawed and it is used as a reason to build and build."
And councillor Stuart Cullimore added: "I also support them because it is an inaccurate way of looking for housing need and I suggest we write in support of St Day Parish Council.
As of last month there were 104 people on the Homechoice Register for an affordable home in St Day.
Of these, there were 11 in band B, 20 in band C, 7 in band D and 66 in band E.
