Seera has proposed an average of 28,900 new homes per year

Regional consultation is taking place on house building figures suggested as part of the South East Plan.

The area covers Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire.

Local representations will be submitted to the South East England Regional Assembly (Seera) in December.

The assembly made an agreement in principle on house building levels for the next 20 years at a meeting on 13 July.

It proposed an average of 28,900 new homes are built every year between 2006 and 2026 - 578,000 homes in total.

Now the numbers are being discussed at sub-regional level, with councils inviting stakeholders such as residents, businesses, infrastructure providers and social and voluntary groups to have their say on the distribution within each county.

Suggested numbers of new homes per year Berkshire - 2,620 Buckinghamshire - 4,040 East Sussex - 1,900 Hampshire - 6,100 Isle of Wight - 520 Kent - 6,100 Oxfordshire - 2,360 Surrey - 2,360 West Sussex - 2,900

The first Kent meetings are being held on Wednesday, one in Ashford and the other in Hoo, Medway.

Comments from people across the county are being taken until the deadline date of 17 October.

Councillor Alex King, the county council's cabinet member for regeneration, said: "We need to make sure that everyone who wants to make a comment is able to do so and that we can properly reflect that in what we say to the officers of the regional assembly."

All the local authorities involved are holding different forms of consultation, including public meetings in some cases.