TORIES will try and stop plans to triple housing numbers to 3,000 new homes being built per year. 

The local plan, still under consideration by the government after it was submitted earlier this year, would mean an extra 1,600 homes are built in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole each year. 

But the party will put forward a motion to full council calling on the the authority to reject the “Westminster-dictated figure of almost 3000 homes per year”. 

Opposition leader Phil Broadhead described the plans as "simply ludicrous and dangerous" and added: “It will mean tower blocks in every part of the town. A complete loss of our Green Belt. A focus on flats rather than much needed family homes. And all with no new infrastructure. 

“The physical fabric of our three towns will change beyond recognition, and we’ve got to stand together to try and halt it.” 

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she will reinstate compulsory housebuilding targets for councils, as part of plans to build 1.5 million new homes in the next five years. 

Ms Reeves also said Labour would reform the planning system to make it easier to build houses on less desirable parts of the green belt, which Sir Keir Starmer has dubbed the “grey belt”.