PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Affordable Housing (10 July 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy for his Department to undertake viability assessments of planning proposals where affordable housing and site values are contested.

Asked by:
Apsana Begum (Independent)

Decisions on called in applications and recovered appeals are made on the basis of evidence submitted by parties, and the report and recommendation of the planning Inspector. In this case, the viability assessment undertaken by the appellant was the subject of evidence given by parties to the inquiry. Viability is considered in detail in the Inspector’s report.

Answered by:
Christopher Pincher (Independent)
15 July 2020