Housing: Construction

(asked on 29th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what the additional powers granted to Homes England that were announced in Autumn Budget 2017 will be; and what the timetable is for guidance to be given to planning inspectors on the nature, extent and exercise of those powers.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 7th December 2017

As the Chancellor set out in the Autumn Budget, the Homes and Community Agency will expand to become Homes England. This will bring together money, expertise, and planning and compulsory purchase powers, Homes England will have a clear remit to facilitate delivery of sufficient new homes, where they are most needed, to deliver a sustained improvement in affordability.

Homes England will have access to a number of planning powers. The Budget statement signalled a new role for an expanded, more assertive Homes England. Homes England will use its money, expertise and available powers, where necessary, to intervene in local markets to get more homes built. Further details on the remit of Homes England will follow in due course.

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