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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to section 9.17 of Fixing the foundations: creating a more prosperous nation, published on 10 July 2015, Cm 9098, how he will implement a dispute resolution mechanism for section 106 agreements.

During the last Parliament we undertook a high level consultation on speeding up Section 106 negotiations, which concluded that these can be a significant delay in processing planning applications, impacting on the delivery of much needed housing and local economic growth. Building on consultation responses, we are developing a dispute resolution process to speed up the determining of planning applications enabling development to be built more quickly.