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Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Peter James Bottomley (Conservative, Centre-right): The majority of the new homes that my right hon. Friend has announced will be leasehold; many leaseholders are subject to abuse. May I ask that his consultation on the abuse and misuse of leasehold includes changing commonhold procedures so that they actually work, so that those with unfair conditions get stopped by the Competition and Markets Authority, and landlords gain nothing by trying to exploit leaseholders?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): No one is saying that modular homes and factory build will be the panacea, but they do have an important contribution to make. Traditional building remains important and that will remain the case for many years to come. Part of trying to get more skills into the sector involves the apprenticeship levy, which comes into place in April. I was proud to introduce it as Business Secretary and have already heard about construction companies’ plans to take on more apprentices.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Christopher Laurie Malthouse (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the standardisation of the calculation of housing supply for local authorities. Will the Secretary of State confirm that that means that no permission should be granted outside the envelope of approved local and neighbourhood plans?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): The White Paper contains several measures to deal with that. There is no easy answer, but there can sometimes be good reasons, such as if a developer has another project to go on once it finishes the current one. Some developers do take too long to turn planning permission into homes, however, so the measures in the White Paper include changes to completion notices and the ability to attach conditions to planning permission. We are also consulting on a new measure for large developments to allow local authorities to take into account a developer’s track record.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): It would be inappropriate for me to discuss a particular planning application, but I can confirm that protections for green belt are as strong as ever. In fact, the White Paper sets out for the first time much more clearly the steps that we expect a local authority to take before it even considers the green belt, including having to show that it has looked at all reasonable alternatives.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
David James Mackintosh (Conservative, Centre-right): In high-growth areas, such as my constituency, the key issue is ensuring that we have the infrastructure for schools, healthcare, transport and community facilities. Will my right hon. Friend please give us more details of how the infrastructure fund for housing will work in practice to provide and ensure that we have both housing and infrastructure?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Gentleman will know that what we want all landlords, whether offering rented accommodation or homes for sale, to meet certain standards, but the underlying problem is that one reason why landlords can sometimes extract a higher rent or set more difficult terms is the lack of supply of homes. That applies to Manchester as much as anywhere else.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Mary Josephine Robinson (Conservative, Centre-right): I am pleased to hear the Secretary of State reiterate that the green belt is safe in our hands. In Stockport, however, the Greater Manchester spatial framework has proposed plans to build more than 4,000 houses on the green belt in my constituency. Will he reassure me, my constituents and the 3,600 people who signed my petition that the green belt is safe in our hands and that there are no plans to remove any restrictions on it?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): We want to see more starter homes being rolled out. A process has already begun that will include homes sold at a 20% discount, but it will also include other types of affordable homes for ownership.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Oliver James Dowden (Conservative, Centre-right): My constituency is entirely green belt, apart from developed areas, and it provides vital protection against London urban sprawl. Can the Secretary of State therefore confirm that, if my local council makes a determination that it cannot meet its needs assessment without sacrificing the green belt, the plan must be upheld by planning inspectors?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): The councils asked for more borrowing powers two years ago so that they could build homes. We did that in last year’s Budget, and there is still lots of headroom—I think it is almost £300 million.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Jason McCartney (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the philosophy of the right houses in the right places, but what advice can the Secretary of State give to my constituents who keep seeing Labour-run Kirklees building the wrong four-bedroom detached houses in the wrong places on greenfield sites with scant regard for school places, infrastructure and collection of section 106 money?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): We expect all councils to come up with the right plans for their area. One of the tests that we apply is to ask the independent Planning Inspectorate to look at those plans, which cannot be adopted until they have gone through that process. When my hon. Friend looks at the changes, he will welcome how we have become more robust about that.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): One of the things the hon. Lady will find in the White Paper is a requirement for all local authorities to account in their plans for everyone in their community, including older people and disabled people. She specifically asks about how we can help supported housing, and there is an ongoing consultation. We are carefully looking at all the issues.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Miriam Jane Alice Davies (Conservative, Centre-right): There is a wild west, adversarial, Lib Dem, lazy planning attitude in my constituency, and I welcome page 63 of the White Paper, which says that disabled people’s needs and older people’s needs will be considered. I also welcome the protection of ancient woodland because, at the moment, the only answer in Eastleigh is "out of space" development dropped on ancient woodland.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): Not a day goes by when I do not speak to councillors across the country. What many of them will welcome today is the requirement for everyone to play by the same rules. They all understand the need for homes in their area, and I suggest the hon. Gentleman does the same.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Robert John Blackman (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the White Paper’s measures to combat homelessness, but part of the solution is direct commissioning of housing. The progress on direct commissioning is not very good so far. What action can my right hon. Friend take to make sure that that is speeded up so that homes are provided for the people who desperately need them?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): I commend my hon. Friend’s work on homelessness, particularly through his Homelessness Reduction Bill, which is making its way through Parliament. He is right about the importance of commissioning, which has a role to play and is something that I am looking at carefully.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Lady will know that housing benefit has already been reformed, but she is right to make the link between housing benefit and high rents. Again, that is a symptom of the fact that for far too long we have not been building enough homes.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
John Philip Glen (Conservative, Centre-right): I warmly welcome today’s White Paper, which has a balanced, pragmatic range of solutions. Will the Secretary of State give consideration to situations where local authorities find themselves held to ransom by developers who refuse to make concessions in the section 106 agreement process and frustrate local communities by subsequently not delivering the infrastructure that they said they would deliver?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): That is often a problem, and my hon. Friend makes a good point. In the White Paper he will see that we refer to some changes that will come about, following the consultation that has already happened, both to section 106 and the community infrastructure levy payments. I think that will help.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Iain Aitken Stewart (Conservative, Centre-right): What flexibility does the White Paper propose for places such as Milton Keynes? Milton Keynes wants to expand properly as part of the Oxford to Cambridge corridor, but housing developments are now being proposed to meet short-term housing targets that risk undermining the planning for long-term growth?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes a good point. When plans are put together, they should look at the long-term land supply—not just over the following five years but beyond that to the required need. Also, there should be more co-operation with neighbouring local authorities on putting together the plans, which is where the proposed new statement of common purpose will help.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): I have looked at this issue carefully and I am not sure it makes the kind of difference my hon. Friend believes it does. Two thirds of housing demand has nothing to do with immigration; it is to do with natural population growth, particularly through people living longer, and that will have to be catered for regardless. Even if immigration was to fall to zero, we would still have a deficit of some 2 million homes and people would still be in overcrowded homes, so we would still have to keep building.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
James Michael Ellwood Berry (Conservative, Centre-right): My constituents are shocked at Lib Dem and residents association-controlled Elmbridge Borough Council’s proposals to allow mass development on the green belt by Surbiton. I therefore welcome my right hon. Friend’s protection of the green belt, but will he confirm that building on the green belt is and will remain possible only in defined exceptional circumstances?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Mixed Topics
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, I can offer that assurance. This is why we are having this consultation; it is in response to some of the innovation taking place in the industry. It is right to look at this, but it is also important that we do not have a race to the bottom.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): There are two parts to my answer on that. First, I point to our commitment to help with the creation of more affordable homes, both for rent and to buy. A lot of that will be through the support provided through housing associations, including the £1.4 billion of extra funding in the last autumn statement. In the longer term, we have the issue of pushing up supply, because that is the only way in which we shall tackle the affordability issue once and for all.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sure the Minister for Housing and Planning would be happy to meet. The hon. Gentleman should know that we would not be able to discuss the specific planning issue, but more general discussions would be welcome.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
James Roger Cartlidge (Conservative, Centre-right): The White Paper talks about sharpening the tools available to local authorities to deal with the massive gulf between the number of planning permissions given and the actual construction of homes. Are there any circumstances in which, if the local authority can provide evidence of land banking, my right hon. Friend would give it the power to levy council tax on unconstructed units if they were not delivered?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): We have looked at this issue carefully, and we have to try to get the right balance. We need to respect the fact that there are legitimate reasons why the supply of any product would need to have a pipeline of inputs, including land, in the case of a house builder, but there is evidence of some firms taking advantage of that, as my hon. Friend mentions. There are many tools in this White Paper, and if after looking at them more carefully he thinks more needs to be done, I will be listening to him.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
David Nuttall (Conservative, Centre-right): If we are going to stop building on the green belt, as is proposed in Bury as part of the Greater Manchester spatial framework, does my right hon. Friend agree that the only way to increase the number of new homes will be to insist on higher density development on brownfield sites?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): One way to increase the number of homes in brownfield areas is through density. This White Paper contains a lot on density and I know that when my hon. Friend takes a close look he will welcome it.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Martin John Vickers (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome the Secretary of State’s determination to tackle the housing shortage, but he will be aware that housing need varies dramatically between provincial towns and rural areas, and London and the south-east. Can he assure my constituents that the policies and planning guidance will not be focused entirely on London and that there will be some allowance for local authorities to vary this in the more rural areas?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
James Morris (Conservative, Centre-right): As a constituency neighbour of mine, the Secretary of State will know that people in Halesowen value the amenity of the green belt around it. Does he therefore agree that the approach to house building in the Black country should very much be brownfield first, focusing on the remediation of existing sites for house building?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Stewart Jackson (Conservative, Centre-right): Land availability is, in a sense, a side issue, because one impediment to expeditious planning consents is the capacity of the planning department and the fact that there is no fiscal incentive for planners to grant permission, which is why these things take so long. Linked to that is the capacity issue and whether planners have the skills, knowledge and experience to deal with large-scale planning applications. On that point, is it not time we reviewed the capacity of local authorities to increase planning fees?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend has talked to me about this before and has helped, along with others, including many local leaders, to make a strong case about it. We have listened and local councils will be able to increase their planning fees by at least 20%.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Andrew William Murrison (Conservative, Centre-right): Local communities are often keen to support housing on exception sites if they feel the housing is for local need. Does the Secretary of State share their frustration that too often under the Housing Act 1985 those homes can then be swapped to somebody who does not have that local connection? Does he also share their frustration at the apparent easy waiving of section 106 agreements, whereby housing for local need is determined after a very peremptory examination of the market by registered social landlords and others, who may turn down people with a local connection who are living in private rented accommodation, whether or not they can afford to live in that accommodation?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): The good news is that the vast majority of councils do have in place a valid local plan, but, of course, some still have not met their requirement. The biggest incentive on councils to do so is that while they do not have a local plan, the presumption in favour of development applies, and that is not fair on the local people they represent. People want to see a plan so that they can control where development takes place.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): Yes, I can confirm that. My hon. Friend speaks with some experience in this area, and the evidence is that the 200-odd neighbourhood plans that have been adopted so far are on average leading to 10% more development than was necessary.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Huw William Merriman (Conservative, Centre-right): On page 25 of the excellent White Paper there is an expectation that local authorities will have to consider small windfall sites off-plan. I suggest that often it is medium sites that will deliver not only more housing but the community benefits that would encourage the community to welcome such sites. Could we increase their number?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): I can highlight to my hon. Friend a requirement, which I think is on the same page in the plan, that would help on just that point. There is a new requirement that, from now on, when local authorities set out their plan they have to allow a minimum of 10% of the site for small and medium-sized builders. These have to be small sites and small plot sizes that will particularly appeal to small and medium-sized builders.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Andrew George Stephenson (Conservative, Centre-right): I was delighted to hear in January that Pendle Borough Council will be one of the first councils in the country to benefit from the Government’s £1.2 billion unlocking the land fund to bring forward brownfield land for starter homes. How will the White Paper further brownfield development in constituencies such as mine?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend will find in the White Paper a requirement on all local authorities that, before they can look at anything other than brownfield, they must show that they have fully exhausted the brownfield opportunities in their area. They must look at all the viable areas, but also at things such as density, to get the most out of brownfield.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Julian Charles Sturdy (Conservative, Centre-right): Starter homes offer a realistic solution to difficult-to-deliver brownfield sites and low levels of home ownership among young people. Bearing in mind the possible change of focus for starter homes, is my right hon. Friend still committed to delivering on the requirement under the Housing and Planning Act 2016 to deliver 200,000 of them by 2020?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): There are specific measures in the White Paper to help to do just that, especially around urban transport hubs and other transport hubs, in order to get a greater density and make much better use of the land.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (Conservative, Centre-right): I welcome my right hon. Friend’s White Paper. Will he assure me that it will ensure that developers have to pay attention to the character of the area around which they are developing? So many developments are so ugly, but people have to live in them and others are less likely to object if the development is beautiful.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend is right to make that point. The change we have made to allow local authorities to increase their planning fees will help with that. Collectively, that 20% increase is worth £75 million. Many local authorities have told me that they would like to hire more resources in their planning departments to help with design, and this change will help to achieve just that.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Stuart James Andrew (Conservative, Centre-right): Thousands of homes have been built on brownfield in my constituency, but thanks to Labour’s excessive 70,000 housing target, we are now seeing swathes of green belt coming under threat. Does the standardised methodology for housing need offer hope to my constituents that we can have a realistic housing target review to meet housing demand?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): I assure my hon. Friend that at the heart of the new methodology is a requirement to be more realistic and honest about the actual housing need in the area. Perhaps he will also be reassured by the words in the White Paper about making sure that, before anyone even looks at green belt, they have exhausted all other reasonable options.
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove (Conservative, Centre-right): One market that never seems to be met is that for bungalows, which are perhaps the only truly lifetime property and which also free up properties for families. What role does the Secretary of State see bungalows playing in future supply?
Housing White Paper — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Housing
Sajid Javid (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes an important point. This comes back to the new requirement for local authorities to plan for every demographic in their area. I am sure that, like me, my hon. Friend has met constituents whose children have left and who live in a large home and would love to downsize, but there is not enough choice in their local area. There is now a specific requirement in the White Paper to make sure that local authorities are planning for everyone, including older people.
Points of Order — House of Commons, 2017-02-07
Topic: Other
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (Conservative, Centre-right): On a point of order, Mr Speaker. As we are a democratic assembly, the only way we can work is to respect the authority of the Speaker; otherwise, there would be complete chaos. Personally, I think that the Queen has issued an invitation to Mr Trump under the advice of her Ministers. He is the leader of the free world, and if we have entertained the President of China, we can entertain him. That is my view but, at the end of the day, we have to respect and support the office of Speaker.