Housing: New Developments Debate
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Baroness Blake of Leeds
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Housing: New Developments
Baroness Blake of Leeds Excerpts(3 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Greenhalgh (Con)
My Lords, I point out that permitted development rights have enabled us to deliver a net additional 72,000 homes in the last five years and make an important contribution to the planning system. Our planning reforms are all designed to get effective community engagement at the front end of the process.
Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)
The expansion of permitted development rights is taking away the voices of local communities in the planning process and handing them to Whitehall’s appointed boards of developers. Are the Government consulting local government representatives about these changes? If so, what representations have they received?
Lord Greenhalgh (Con)
My Lords, at this stage of the planning reform process we have had 44,000 responses and have continued engagement with the Local Government Association and other important stakeholders, and we will be responding to those responses in due course.