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Oral Answers to Questions

Peter Bottomley Excerpts
Monday 17th July 2017

(7 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I would like to see all councils playing an active role in getting more homes built in their area. It is to be welcomed when councils work with private partners to deliver more homes themselves. To make sure those homes are in the right place, local people should be involved in formulating the local plan and then the neighbourhood plans.

Peter Bottomley Portrait Sir Peter Bottomley (Worthing West) (Con)
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Balancing supply and demand requires successful developers and confident buyers. Will my right hon. Friend bring in the owners of the freeholds, who are making a misery of the lives of people in leasehold houses, and the developers who are trying to put things right? People such as Adriatic, frankly, look like modern-day robbers.