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HANSARDEnglish DevolutionI thank my noble friend for his support for the overall programme. London already has a devolution arrangement, but I am assured by colleagues that we will look at the GLA and how…19 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsMy Lords, the Planning Gateway One fire safety requirements apply to applications for planning permission for relevant buildings. To apply some of the principles to permitted…18 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsMy noble friend makes an excellent point about funding for affordable housing. Even in a very tight budget round, the Government have allocated an additional £500 million towards…18 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsThere are a wide range of issues that we need to think about in terms of permitted development, and noise nuisance is one of them. All new homes are required to meet current…18 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsI thank the right reverend Prelate for that question. PDR tends to apply where there are brownfield sites to be developed because they are conversions, usually, from existing…18 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsI thank the noble Lord, Lord Crisp, for his Question and for all the work he has done on healthy homes. Under nationally set permitted development rights, a wide range of…18 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsIt is very important that we focus on the facilities in local areas, but this is a commercial market and where shops are not able to achieve the market they need, permitted…18 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsI thank the noble Lord and apologise for misleading him yesterday: it is not in the NPPF but in the accompanying notes. There are powers that local government can use, including…18 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsI am grateful to the noble Lord, and for his time in meeting with me to discuss embodied carbon. We have been talking to the construction industry and to developers across the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsI take the noble Baroness’s point; we need to keep this continually under review. Some of the permitted development homes have been of fair quality and have provided homes for…18 Dec 2024HANSARDHousing: Permitted Development RightsMy Lords, the Government’s aim in the delivery of the 1.5 million homes is to deliver good quality, well-designed, sustainable homes and places that everyone can be proud of. I…18 Dec 2024HANSARDBuilding HomesThere are clear links between the new National Planning Policy Framework and the English devolution programme. The English Devolution White Paper , which was published yesterday,…17 Dec 2024HANSARDBuilding HomesI thank the noble Baroness. She will know that we are working through a process—for example, some changes were made to leasehold arrangements. She is quite right to say that the…17 Dec 2024HANSARDBuilding HomesI thank my noble friend for both his questions. We are very aware of the point he raises about the affordability of housing, which is why, in spite of a very difficult Budget…17 Dec 2024HANSARDBuilding HomesMy Lords, I am grateful to both the noble Lord and the noble Baroness for their questions. I have only six minutes left, so I shall probably struggle to answer all of them in the…17 Dec 2024HANSARDBuilding HomesI thank the noble Lord for his question. We have an Oral Question on exactly the same topic tomorrow, when I am sure I will be able to give a fuller answer. The noble Lord is…17 Dec 2024HANSARDBuilding HomesI thank the noble Lord. I gave an explanation of how we set the targets in response to the question from the noble Lord, Lord Jamieson. The fact is that everyone and every area…17 Dec 2024HANSARDBuilding HomesI am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, for that question, because in a housing crisis where we have so many people in need of affordable homes, it has been such a shame…17 Dec 2024HANSARDHousebuilding TargetsThe noble Baroness is quite right to point to that as an issue. We have set up the housing acceleration unit in the department, which I mentioned earlier, to help with that. We…12 Dec 2024HANSARDHomes: Existing CommunitiesMy Lords, I am very pleased to respond for the Government on this important topic. What an interesting debate it has been. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson, for leading on the…12 Dec 2024