To promote the social value of placemaking and good design for communities. The group focuses on how to improve community involvement in infrastructure, housing and other developments, and seeks to highlight the benefits of an upfront and informed approach to growth in local areas.
1. Approved Document M volume 2 amendments: circular 02/2020
19/07/2020 - Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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Found: MINISTRY OF
HOUSING, COMMUNITIES
AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Housing
Communities and Local Government
2. Approved Document B volume 1 and 2: circular 01/2020
26/05/2020 - Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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Found: MINISTRY OF
HOUSING, COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Housing
Communities and Local
Government Circular
3. Building Safety Bill: Government response to pre-legislative scrutiny by the Select Committee
05/07/2021 - Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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Found:
Policy paper
Building Safety Bill: Government response to pre-legislative scrutiny
4. Building safety: letter to Chair of the Industry Safety Steering Group (22 July 2020)
05/08/2020 - Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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Found:
Correspondence
Building safety: letter to Chair of the Industry Safety Steering
5. Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission: government response to the ‘Living with Beauty’ report
30/01/2021 - Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
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Found:
Policy paper
Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission: government response
1. Design and Building Standards
01/02/2021 - Written Statements
1: 2018, the Government established the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. Under the leadership - Speech Link
2. Planning for the Future
12/03/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: be introducing a building safety Bill to bring about the biggest change in building safety for a generation - Speech Link
3. Community Housing
12/03/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: life-favourite themes: first, giving people in local communities more real say over the housing that is to be - Speech Link
2: as I did, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government say earlier that the great - Speech Link
3: frequently have considerable support from local communities—and that, although this Budget was overwhelmingly - Speech Link
4. Planning Decisions: Local Involvement
21/06/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: calls on the Government to protect the right of communities to object to individual planning applications - Speech Link
2: calls on the Government to protect the right of communities to object to individual planning applications - Speech Link
3: calls on the Government to protect the right of communities to object to individual planning applications - Speech Link
5. Building Safety
29/06/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: [Relevant documents: Seventh Report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Session 2019-21 - Speech Link
2: call Clive Betts, the Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, to open the debate - Speech Link
3: Hackitt review and the draft building safety Bill on which the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee - Speech Link
asked by: Gareth Thomas
28/04/2021
... what assessment he has made of the effect of the decision by regulators not to consider the effect of demutualisation of building societies and friendly societies on the financial crash of 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. 2. Building Regulations
asked by: Marsha De Cordova
15/06/2021
... whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the stamp duty window for those who are unable to sell their property as a result of new building regulations. 3. Building Regulations
asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
03/06/2020
...To ask Her Majesty's Government who is responsible for setting and changing building regulations. 4. Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission
asked by: Baroness Thomas of Winchester
25/02/2020
... published on 30 January. 5. Building Regulations
asked by: Lord Smith of Finsbury
27/02/2020
...To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to include measures to promote water sustainability and re-use in building regulations for the construction of new properties.
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£6,001
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Britain-Pakistan Trade and Tourism , Broadband and Digital Communication , Corporate Governance , Council Housing , Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK , Crossrail , Data Analytics , Dying Well , Extraordinary Rendition , Faith and Society , Financial Markets and Services , Financial Technology , Gambling Related Harm , Germany , Homelessness , Human Rights , Immigration Law and Policy , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , Internet, Communications and Technology , Motorsport , Romania , Safeguarding in Faith Communities , Singapore , Skills, Careers and Employment , Social Mobility , Tamils , Trade out of Poverty
Julie Marson
Secretary
Conservative - Hertford and Stortford
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 21st April 2021
Drew Hendry
Vice Chair
Scottish National Party - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Joined: 31st July 2019Departed: 5th November 2019
Cuba , Financial Education for Young People , Forestry and Tree Planting , Germany , Gibraltar , Greenland , Light Rail , Manufacturing , Romania , Terminal Illness
Mark Prisk
Secretary
Conservative - Former Member for Hertford and Stortford
Joined: 18th July 2018Departed: 5th November 2019
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Business in a Pandemic (Covid) World , Business Travel , China , Corporate Responsibility , Events , Greyhound , Hockey , Infrastructure , Light Rail , Maritime and Ports , Portugal , Republic of Korea , South Western Railway , Sri Lanka , Tamils , Town Centres , Wine and Spirits