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HANSARD Building HomesI refer the hon. Gentleman to my previous answers on that point.12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesMy hon. Friend makes a good point. Viability is stalling development in lots of areas in the country. We need to look at what support can be put in place for particular…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesLocal authorities are already required to put in place plans for infrastructure delivery, and to set out how that infrastructure is funded and should come forward. We have made a…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesAs my hon. Friend may know, the new method produces a figure for London of nearly 88,000. That is more than double recent delivery, and it constitutes the biggest proposed…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesThe hon. Gentleman’s point is well made. We are determined to drive up the coverage of up-to-date local plans. We want universal coverage: that is the way to secure sustainable…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesI gently say to the hon. Lady that the expectation of having an up-to-date local plan in place is nothing new. Authorities have known for some time that they should be doing that.…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesThere is more to be done in this area, and SMEs and small sites can make a huge contribution to the 1.5 million home target. There are changes that have been published today in…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesI return to a point that I have made several times during this statement. The onus is on local communities and elected leaders to put in place up-to-date local plans that shape…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesAs I made clear in my response to the shadow Minister, our approach to agricultural land remains the same. Ours is a brownfield-first approach. We want to maximise delivery on…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesI have been very clear about this. We have dropped the arbitrary 35% uplift introduced by the previous Government, which bore no relation to housing need. Metro area targets are…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesWe need consistency in national policy. We had too many changes to the national planning policy framework under previous Governments. We intend this to be the big change in terms…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesI thank the Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee. He is right: we have made a number of changes to the framework to further strengthen references to climate mitigation and…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesI thank the hon. Gentleman for some of his responses, and for those questions. I am glad that he broadly supports the Government’s target of 1.5 million homes. As he will know,…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesThe hon. Gentleman makes a somewhat cryptic statement. Perhaps the point he is driving at is related to golden rules. One of the changes we have made that puts pragmatism above…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. To be clear, the reforms to the planning system that we are making today are not the only part of the answer; delivery of homes is an entirely…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesI look forward to my visit to Ebbsfleet, which is now building out at a faster rate than it was. We welcome its contribution. I have already referenced the changes we intend to…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesI am pleased that the hon. Gentleman’s area is working in co-operation with its neighbours. As he knows, we have in place a duty to co-operate; it has not been particularly…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesThe hon. Gentleman’s request has been put on the record and I will make sure that my ministerial colleagues are made aware of it.12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesI have a lot of time for the right hon. Gentleman, but I think that sort of hyperbole is beneath him, if I may say so. We are not absolving the Mayor of London of his…12 Dec 2024HANSARD Building HomesThere are measures in the framework that will help to achieve the objectives that we both seek. The Government are also committed to strengthening the existing system of developer…12 Dec 2024