Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: Wildlife Crime in Scotland 2022Found: Threats Construction of roads, housing and other developments may have a direct impact on badger habitat
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: Convention of the Highlands and Islands minutes: March 2024Found: There's so much more that - there's so many jobs in the construction, so many jobs in servicing.
Mentions:
1: Lord Berkeley (Lab - Life peer) local authorities, and that is just one example.There is a surprising lack of off-site prefabricated construction - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) We also have an enormous housing crisis, with both a lack of housing and its incredible cost. - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) We have a housing crisis; we have an issue of intergenerational fairness; we have increasing housing - Speech Link
4: Earl of Lytton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) A comment has just been made about housing. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) That included funds of some £10 million to Wiltshire Council, which has enabled the construction of integrated - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) have been involved with the Society of Antiquaries’ discussions with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing - Speech Link
2: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) The freehold for that is the responsibility of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities - Speech Link
3: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) through the Environment Act 2021, brought in the concept of biodiversity net gain, with the impact of construction - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) for Suffolk Coastal (Dr Coffey) who, when she was Environment Secretary, was heavily involved in the construction - Speech Link
Asked by: Mark Hendrick (Labour (Co-op) - Preston)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the number of (a) social and (b) affordable housing properties built by developers; and what steps his Department is taking to encourage more affordable housing to be built.
Answered by Jacob Young - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
Our £11.5 billion Affordable Homes Programme will deliver thousands of affordable homes, both for rent and to buy, right across the country.
The Levelling Up White Paper committed to increasing the supply of social rented homes, and a large number of the new homes delivered through our Affordable Homes Programme will be for social rent.
The government is on track to deliver its target of building around 250,000 affordable homes through the Affordable Homes Programme.
Local planning authorities can secure addition contributions towards affordable housing through section 106 planning obligations.
The Levelling Up and Regeneration Act contains powers for the Government to create a new mandatory, non-negotiable Infrastructure Levy which will aim to generate more funding for affordable housing and infra-structure to support sustainable development.
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: 10 years of the CMAFound: promote competitive markets and tackle unfair practices 2024 and beyond• Launched investigations into housing
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: The CMA at 10: Past reflections and a look ahead to the next decade of promoting competition and protecting consumersFound: economic growth, and the resilience of our economy; mitigating cost of living pressures; tackling the housing
Apr. 18 2024
Source Page: AAIB investigation to Airbus A321-253NX, G-OATWFound: times are UTC AAIB Bulletin: G-OATW AAIB-29637 Figure 3 G-OATW FDR data Cabin windows description Construction
Mentions:
1: Caroline Johnson (Con - Sleaford and North Hykeham) On the concept of efficiency, Hinkley Point C, which is currently under construction in Somerset, will - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) The so-called housing crisis, which is just as much an immigration crisis as a housing crisis, is worse - Speech Link
3: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) No, it does not—not when we consider the construction impact, the visual impact, the risk to wildlife - Speech Link
4: Greg Smith (Con - Buckingham) In the Claydons, for example, my constituents have suffered hugely from large-scale construction already - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: McLennan, Paul (SNP - East Lothian) Housing also plays an important part. - Speech Link
2: Whitham, Elena (SNP - Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the housing minister has had with ministerial colleagues - Speech Link
3: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) The minister mentioned the housing investment taskforce in his last answer. - Speech Link
4: McLennan, Paul (SNP - East Lothian) Given that, I was delighted to chair the first meeting of the housing investment task force just two - Speech Link