Oral Answers to Questions

Lucy Allan Excerpts

Monday 12th March 2018 Commons Chamber

[David T. C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)]

7. What progress his Department has made on the delivery of new homes.

[Lucy Allan (Telford) (Con)]

16. What progress his Department has made on the delivery of new homes.

[The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (Sajid Javid)]

Last year, some 217,000 homes were added to our housing stock in England. We have set out bold and comprehensive reforms to deliver on average 300,000 homes a year by the middle of the 2020s in England, including in last week’s publication of the draft revised national planning policy framework.

[Sajid Javid]

My hon. Friend will be pleased to hear that we are committed to both reducing net migration to sustainable levels and building the homes that this country needs.

[Lucy Allan]

Telford is a rapidly growing new town in which thousands of new homes are built every year, but for too many new-build homeowners, the reality is unfinished communal areas, unadopted roads, failure to comply with section 106, developers failing to take responsibility and the local council passing the buck. What will the Secretary of State do to strengthen the rights of new-build homeowners?