Asked by: Jonathan Edwards (Independent - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assets have been accepted as of community value under the Localism Act 2011.
Answered by Stephen Williams
The Government is not obliged to keep a list of assets which have been accepted as being of community value; this is the responsibility of the relevant local authority in England. However we know that over 1,500 assets have been listed including pubs (over 500), museums, parks and green spaces, post offices and village shops and an iconic cold war era control tower at Greenham Common. More information can be found at www.gov.uk/government/news/milestone-reached-as-community-rights-uses-hit-3000.
The Welsh Government has not implemented the provisions of the Localism Act 2011 and there are no assets of community value listed in Wales.
Asked by: Jonathan Edwards (Independent - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what progress he has made in introducing a pilot scheme for compensating households affected by house price depreciation near large infrastructure developments; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nick Boles
At the Budget, we announced that we will launch a government funded, staged pilot for passing a share of the benefits of development directly to individual households.
Our development benefits pilot is not a direct compensation scheme associated with housing price depreciation near large infrastructure developments. Rather than households bringing forward claims for compensation, we are testing a model where the benefits of housing development are directly shared with households in the local area. This would be in the form of financial payments according to a fixed formula.
Work is underway to develop the scheme, including further research and evaluation of the approach and we expect to ask for expressions of interest for pilot schemes later this year.