Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent estimate he has made of the number of local planning authorities setting requirements for a specific proportion of new homes to be built to accessible and adaptable standards.
The Government has not made a recent estimate but estimates were included in the impact assessment published when the Optional Building regulations’ standard for accessible housing, including wheelchair accessible housing, was introduced in 2015.