Housing and Planning

Andrew Smith Excerpts

Thursday 6th September 2012 Commons Chamber

[Mr Pickles]

That sounds to me like the kind of world that we would all like to occupy. Obviously, I cannot prejudice any decision that I might make as a planning Minister, but that seems to me to be a happy place to be.

[Mr Andrew Smith (Oxford East) (Lab)]

Does the Secretary of State accept that in areas such as mine, which is under enormous pressure for houses in multiple occupation, his proposals on domestic extensions risk an explosion of unsightly and unneighbourly developments that will degrade residential areas and, to repeat a phrase that he used earlier, the aspirations of those who live there?