Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether South Gloucestershire Council has made any funding applications to his Department for new developments, spatial plans or strategic development sites in Thornbury and Yate constituency.
Answered by Lord Barwell
In 2016/17 South Gloucestershire Council submitted an application for Garden Villages capacity funding and an application for Large Sites and Housing Zones capacity funding in Thornbury and Yate constituency. These were unsuccessful.
South Gloucestershire Council also submitted a joint application for Large Sites and Housing Zones capacity funding in 2016/17 with Bath and North East Somerset Council, Bristol City Council and North Somerset Council. This funding application included some sites within the Thornbury and Yate constituency. The funding application was unsuccessful.
Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the outcome of South Gloucestershire Council's application to the large sites and housing zones capacity fund for a new Buckover Garden Village is.
Answered by Lord Barwell
South Gloucestershire Council put in an application for Large Sites and Housing Zones capacity funding 2016/17 for Buckover garden village. This was unsuccessful.
Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether garden village proposals which do not meet the criteria in the report Locally-Led Garden Villages, Towns and Cities, published by his Department in March 2016, will not receive either formally or informally any aspect of the Government support package set out in paragraphs 31 to 44 of that document.
Answered by Lord Barwell
We are keen that local areas continue to pursue their garden village ambitions. The Homes and Communites Agency has offered a conversation with local authorities whose garden village proposals were not selected to establish how they might be supported to progress their ambitions.
We want local areas to be ambitious and want to encourage well developed locally led proposals that will provide high quality, transformational housing growth.
Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Garden Village proposals which do not meet the criteria set out in Locally-Led Garden Villages, Towns and Cities, published by his Department in March 2016, and which were not selected in the initial round will not receive either informal or formal support by the Homes and Communities Agency in progressing those proposals outside of the scheme.
Answered by Lord Barwell
The Homes and Communities Agency has offered a conversation with local authorities whose garden village proposals were not selected to establish how they might be supported to progress their ambitions.
The 14 garden villages selected stood out as the strongest against the criteria we had set, including the likelihood of timely progress and accelerated delivery; viability and local demand; the strength of quality, innovation and design in the proposal; and the strength of local leadership and support.
Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Garden Village proposals which do not meet the criteria of having a substantive engagement strategy to win local support as set out at point 17 on page 7 of Locally-led Garden Villages, Towns and Cities, published by his Department in March 2016, and which were not selected in the initial round will not receive either informal or formal support from the Homes and Communities Agency in progressing those proposals outside the scheme.
Answered by Lord Barwell
The Homes and Communities Agency has offered a conversation with local authorities whose garden village proposals were not selected to establish how they might be supported to progress their ambitions.
The 14 garden villages selected stood out as the strongest against the criteria we had set, including the likelihood of timely progress and accelerated delivery; viability and local demand; the strength of quality, innovation and design in the proposal; and the strength of local leadership and support.
Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Garden Village proposals which do not meet the criteria of not being discrete settlements or town expansions as set out at point 14 on page 7 of Locally-led Garden Villages, Towns and Cities, published by his Department in March 2016, and which were not selected in the initial round will not receive either informal or formal support from the Homes and Communities Agency in progressing those proposals outside the scheme.
Answered by Lord Barwell
The Homes and Communities Agency has offered a conversation with local authorities whose garden village proposals were not selected to establish how they might be supported to progress their ambitions.
The 14 garden villages selected stood out as the strongest against the criteria we had set, including the likelihood of timely progress and accelerated delivery; viability and local demand; the strength of quality, innovation and design in the proposal; and the strength of local leadership and support.
Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Garden Village proposals which do not meet the criteria of making use of public sector or brownfield land as set out at point 20 on page 8 of Locally-led Garden Villages, Towns and Cities, published by his Department in March 2016, and which were not selected in the initial round will not receive either informal or formal support from the Homes and Communities Agency in progressing those proposals outside the scheme.
Answered by Lord Barwell
The Homes and Communities Agency has offered a conversation with local authorities whose garden village proposals were not selected to establish how they might be supported to progress their ambitions.
The 14 garden villages selected stood out as the strongest against the criteria we had set, including the likelihood of timely progress and accelerated delivery; viability and local demand; the strength of quality, innovation and design in the proposal; and the strength of local leadership and support.
Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Garden Village proposals which do not meet the criteria of demonstrating that their infrastructure has been clearly assessed as set out at point 29 on page 8 of Locally-led Garden Villages, Towns and Cities, published by his Department in March 2016, and which were not selected in the initial round will not receive either informal or formal support from the Homes and Communities Agency in progressing those proposals outside the scheme.
Answered by Lord Barwell
The Homes and Communities Agency has offered a conversation with local authorities whose garden village proposals were not selected to establish how they might be supported to progress their ambitions.
The 14 garden villages selected stood out as the strongest against the criteria we had set, including the likelihood of timely progress and accelerated delivery; viability and local demand; the strength of quality, innovation and design in the proposal; and the strength of local leadership and support.
Asked by: Luke Hall (Conservative - Thornbury and Yate)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether Garden Village proposals which do not meet the criteria of achieving substantial local community support as set out at point 11 on page 6 of Locally-led Garden Villages, Towns and Cities, published by his Department in March 2016, and which were not selected in the initial round will not receive either informal or formal support from the Homes and Communities Agency in progressing those proposals outside the scheme.
Answered by Lord Barwell
The Homes and Communities Agency has offered a conversation with local authorities whose garden village proposals were not selected to establish how they might be supported to progress their ambitions.
The 14 garden villages selected stood out as the strongest against the criteria we had set, including the likelihood of timely progress and accelerated delivery; viability and local demand; the strength of quality, innovation and design in the proposal; and the strength of local leadership and support.