Housing White Paper

Debate between Sajid Javid and James Berry

Tuesday 7th February 2017 Commons Chamber

[Sajid Javid]

It will help York in many of the ways in which it will help across the country, for example, through the requirement for every local authority to undertake an honest assessment of need and plan on that basis.

[James Berry (Kingston and Surbiton) (Con)]

My constituents are shocked at Lib Dem and residents association-controlled Elmbridge Borough Council’s proposals to allow mass development on the green belt by Surbiton. I therefore welcome my right hon. Friend’s protection of the green belt, but will he confirm that building on the green belt is and will remain possible only in defined exceptional circumstances?

[Sajid Javid]

Yes, I can absolutely confirm that.