Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent progress his Department has been made on (a) leasehold reform and (b) the reform of leasehold extension (enfranchisement).
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The Government has committed to making enfranchisement cheaper for leaseholders by reforming the process of valuation leaseholders must follow to calculate the cost of extending their lease or buying their freehold.
The Government has already legislated via the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 to protect future leaseholders and we are due to bring forward further leasehold reforms later in this Parliament
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many houses were built on brownfield sites in each region of the number of houses in (a) 2019/20, (b) 2020/21, (c) 2021/22 and (d) the current year to date.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The percentages of new residential addresses created on previously developed land in each region are available as below. Figures for more recent years are not yet available.
The Government is supporting housing supply, including remediation of brownfield land, through a range of programmes, including the Brownfield Housing Fund and the Brownfield Land Release Fund. The information published by the Department is available in the Annual Report and Accounts. The latest Annual Report and Accounts is available here.
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding was allocated to brownfield remediation in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22 and (d) 2022-23 to date, by region.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The percentages of new residential addresses created on previously developed land in each region are available as below. Figures for more recent years are not yet available.
The Government is supporting housing supply, including remediation of brownfield land, through a range of programmes, including the Brownfield Housing Fund and the Brownfield Land Release Fund. The information published by the Department is available in the Annual Report and Accounts. The latest Annual Report and Accounts is available here.
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how much funding was allocated to brownfield remediation for housing in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22 and (d) 2022-23 to date.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The percentages of new residential addresses created on previously developed land in each region are available as below. Figures for more recent years are not yet available.
The Government is supporting housing supply, including remediation of brownfield land, through a range of programmes, including the Brownfield Housing Fund and the Brownfield Land Release Fund. The information published by the Department is available in the Annual Report and Accounts. The latest Annual Report and Accounts is available here.
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many unauthorised encampments were recorded in each county and metropolitan borough in 2015 in England.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
The biannual Traveller Caravan Count includes figures for the number of traveller caravans on unauthorised encampments in each local authority area in England.
The figures for the January and July 2015 counts can be found via the following links:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/traveller-caravan-count-january-2015
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/traveller-caravan-count-july-2015
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) eviction notices and (b) legal action related to the clearance of sites of unauthorised encampments in England in 2015.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
Enforcement action against unauthorised encampments is primarily a matter for local authorities, landowners and the police. The Department does not collect information centrally on the total costs of such clearances.
Asked by: Wendy Morton (Conservative - Aldridge-Brownhills)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what representations his Department has received from each (a) local authority, (b) Police and Crime Commissioner and (c) Police Chief Constable seeking further powers in relation to responsibilities to stop unauthorised encampments in the last 12 months.
Answered by Brandon Lewis
We regularly receive correspondence from individual local authorities and MPs, concerning the powers available to enforcement agencies and operation of the planning system. The Government takes the issue of unauthorised encampments and associated problems seriously and will continue to keep it under review.