Housing: Older People

(asked on 17th March 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to increase number of local authorities with local plan policies relating to older people’s housing.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 25th March 2021

We place great importance on the provision of suitable homes for older people.

Having an up-to-date plan in place is essential to planning for our housing requirements and the housing needs of older people.

Our planning rules already mean councils must consider the needs of older people when planning for new homes. In 2019 we published guidance to help councils implement the National Planning Policy Framework policies.

On 19 January 2021 our Written Ministerial Statement set the expectation that all authorities should have up to date plans in place by the end of 2023.

Further to this, the Planning for the Future white paper sets out our vision of a simpler, quicker and more accessible planning system, where Local Plans are visual, digitised and map-based, prepared to a new statutory timetable, and judged against a single ‘sustainable development’ test at examination.

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