Martin Horwood
Main Page: Martin Horwood (Liberal Democrat - Cheltenham)
Greg Clark
We constantly have discussions with our colleagues in DECC, and we are absolutely determined to meet those renewables targets. Unless we bring in a system whereby communities can share in the benefits, we are unlikely to meet those targets, so we are urgently changing the system in order to get communities behind these things.
Martin Horwood (Cheltenham) (LD)
The coalition’s policy of letting local authorities plan for local housing need is very welcome, but the previous Government’s requirement of them to display five years’ supply of land for housing need before they could fight off overdevelopment on green spaces was lopsided, unfair and unsustainable. Will Ministers meet councillors and campaigners from Gloucestershire to hear the case for abolishing it?
Greg Clark
I should be very happy to meet my hon. Friend and his colleagues.