Housing and Planning APPG

First Registered: 29/09/2015 • Last updated on: 13/12/2023

Note: This APPG was last registered on 13th December 2023. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of the 24th January 2024 and may be defunct.

To provide a forum for parliamentarians to discuss issues arising from housing and planning policy, primarily the delivery of housing, infrastructure and placemaking via the planning system.

Note: All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country. APPGs have no official status within Parliament.
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Reticulating Splines
Former APPG Members
Harriet Harman Portrait
Harriet Harman
Vice Chair
Labour - Camberwell and Peckham
Joined: 30th November 2022
Departed: 13th December 2023
Stephen McPartland Portrait
Stephen McPartland
Vice Chair
Conservative - Stevenage
Joined: 30th November 2022
Departed: 13th December 2023
Damien Moore Portrait
Damien Moore
Vice Chair
Conservative - Southport
Joined: 30th November 2022
Departed: 13th December 2023
Lord Best Portrait
Lord Best
Officer
Crossbench - Life peer
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 13th December 2023
David Simmonds Portrait
David Simmonds
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
Joined: 7th August 2020
Departed: 13th December 2023
Peter Bottomley Portrait
Peter Bottomley
Officer
Conservative - Worthing West
Joined: 7th September 2022
Departed: 19th October 2022
83 APPG Memberships
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Gagan Mohindra Portrait
Gagan Mohindra
Officer
Conservative - South West Hertfordshire
Joined: 7th August 2020
Departed: 19th October 2022
Ben Everitt Portrait
Ben Everitt
Officer
Conservative - Milton Keynes North
Joined: 7th August 2020
Departed: 19th October 2022
Gareth Bacon Portrait
Gareth Bacon
Vice Chair
Conservative - Orpington
Joined: 23rd March 2022
Departed: 19th October 2022
Lord Young of Norwood Green Portrait
Lord Young of Norwood Green
Vice Chair
Labour - Life peer
Joined: 23rd March 2022
Departed: 19th October 2022
Helen Hayes Portrait
Helen Hayes
Officer
Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 17th November 2021
Karen Buck Portrait
Karen Buck
Officer
Labour - Westminster North
Joined: 7th August 2020
Departed: 17th November 2021
Tony Lloyd Portrait
Tony Lloyd
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Rochdale
Joined: 7th August 2020
Departed: 17th November 2021
No other APPG Memberships
Jane Hunt Portrait
Jane Hunt
Vice Chair
Conservative - Loughborough
Joined: 7th August 2020
Departed: 17th November 2021
Mark Pawsey Portrait
Mark Pawsey
Vice Chair
Conservative - Rugby
Joined: 7th August 2020
Departed: 17th November 2021
David Drew Portrait
David Drew
Honorary Secretary
Labour (Co-op) - Former Member for Stroud
Joined: 8th May 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Lord Shipley Portrait
Lord Shipley
Honorary Treasurer
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 24th November 2016
Departed: 5th November 2019
2 APPG Memberships
City Regions Transport , Leamside Line
Eddie Hughes Portrait
Eddie Hughes
Vice Chair
Conservative - Walsall North
Joined: 8th May 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
1 APPG Membership
'Left Behind' Neighbourhoods
Mark Prisk Portrait
Mark Prisk
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Former Member for Hertford and Stortford
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Earl of Lytton Portrait
Earl of Lytton
Treasurer
Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 2nd January 2019
1 APPG Membership
Healthy Homes and Buildings
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville Portrait
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Secretary
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 2nd January 2019
John Penrose Portrait
John Penrose
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - Weston-super-Mare
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 2nd January 2019
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - South Suffolk
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Stephen Pound Portrait
Stephen Pound
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Ealing North
Joined: 29th September 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
No other APPG Memberships
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

David Simmonds MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 0207 219 6578.

Email: david.simmonds.mp@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Joel Cohen, Royal Town Planning Institute, 41-42 Boltoph Lane, London EC3R 8DL. Tel: 07921 498 219

Email: joel.cohen@rtpi.org.uk

Secretariat:

Royal Town Planning Institute acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.rtpi.org.uk/

Group's Website:

https://www.rtpi.org.uk/appg

Date
13 Jul 2022
Source
Royal Town Planning Institute
Description
Secretariat   From : 13/07/2022 To : 12/07/2023
Value
£3,001
Date
13 Jul 2021
Source
Royal Town Planning Institute
Description
Secretariat   From : 13/07/2021 To : 12/07/2022
Value
£3,001
Date
13 Jul 2020
Source
Royal Town Planning Institute
Description
Secretariat   From : 13/07/2020 To : 12/07/2021
Value
£3,001
Date
12 Sep 2018
Source
Royal Town Planning Institute
Description
Secretariat
Value
£3,001
Date
12 Sep 2018
Source
Royal Town Planning Institute
Description
Secretariat   From : 12/09/2018 To : 11/09/2019
Value
£3,001
Date
12 Sep 2017
Source
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Description
Secretariat   From : 12/09/2017 To : 11/09/2018
Value
£3,001
Date
16 Jul 2016
Source
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Description
Secretariat   From : 16/07/2016 To : 15/07/2017
Value
£6,001
Date
22 Mar 2016
Source
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Description
Reception
Value
£1,501
Date
16 Jul 2015
Source
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Description
Secretariat   From : 08/07/2015 To : 31/12/2015
Value
£6,001

No direct financial benefits are on record for the Housing and Planning APPG