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HANSARDPlanning Committees: ReformIndeed, Mr Speaker, and I get a strong sense that an Adjournment debate application will be coming your way on several of those issues. Let me address a number of them. The hon.…09 Dec 2024HANSARDPlanning Committees: ReformOn many sites across the country there are genuine reasons, including those of viability, why sites are not built out. It is not as simple as saying that every consented site that…09 Dec 2024HANSARDPlanning Committees: ReformI gently say to the right hon. Gentleman that, for a start, he has clearly not read the working paper. His question was a mess of contradictions. What we are clearly saying to…09 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsPerhaps the hon. Gentleman did not hear my previous response. The proposed new standard method, which we consulted on, significantly boosts expectations across our city regions.…02 Dec 2024HANSARDPlanning ReformThe hon. Gentleman will know that we are leaving in place the protections on neighbourhood planning. He is mistaken if he is suggesting that we are skewing development towards…02 Dec 2024HANSARDPlanning ReformI am not sure how that relates to planning reform, which is the subject of the question, but my hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government will set out in due course how our…02 Dec 2024HANSARDPlanning ReformFull details of the provisional settlement will be set out in the coming weeks.02 Dec 2024HANSARDLeasehold ReformFor far too many leaseholders, the reality of home ownership has fallen woefully short of the dream. Over the course of this Parliament, the Government are determined to honour…02 Dec 2024HANSARDLeasehold ReformI thank my hon. Friend for his question. The Government are acutely aware that far too many leaseholders across the country are routinely subject to unjustified permissions and…02 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe recognise that this is a growing problem across the country that is having a severe impact on affordable housing supply. My hon. Friend will not have to wait long to find out…02 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsAs I have said, the best way to shape development in any given area is to have an up-to-date local plan in place. Where such plans are not in place, local authorities leave…02 Dec 2024HANSARDSocial Housing: Service ChargesThe Government recognise the considerable financial strain that rising service charges are placing on leaseholders, including those whose landlord is a social housing provider. As…02 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe want to put in place a planning system that is geared towards meeting housing need in full. That is a clear difference between us and the Conservative party. In bringing…02 Dec 2024HANSARDSocial Housing: Service ChargesI thank the hon. Gentleman for that supplementary question and assure him that I share his deep concern about the pressure on the household budgets of shared owners in his…02 Dec 2024HANSARDPlanning ReformI thank my hon. Friend for her question. The Government are determined to increase rates of house building in order to address the housing crisis and boost economic growth, but we…02 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend and I have discussed this matter many times. She is well aware of the Government’s approach to tackling excessive concentrations of short-term lets and second…02 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe took steps, in the proposed reforms to the consultation on the national planning policy framework, to encourage build-out—not least through encouraging mixed-use development.…02 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsIn the NPPF, we set out the clear direction of travel towards the universal coverage of strategic planning across the whole of England. We had an Adjournment debate on that just…02 Dec 2024HANSARDPlanning ReformAs hon. Members will be aware, we consulted on proposed changes to the national planning policy framework and other changes to the planning system between 30 July and 24…02 Dec 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsLocal plans have to go through examination for a determination of whether they are sound. Hard constraints, such as the type that the hon. Gentleman has just mentioned, will be…02 Dec 2024