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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing: North East (17 November 2014)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of the New Homes Bonus on housing planning approvals in the North East since 2011.

Asked by:
Sir Alan Campbell (Labour)

Answer

The New Homes Bonus was announced as a Coalition Government policy in 2010, and commenced in April 2011, but it has rewarded planning permission granted from October 2009 onwards.

Thanks to the Government’s planning reforms and incentives like the New Homes Bonus, in the last 12 months to June 2014, an estimated 230,000 new homes were granted planning permission across England. This is up from 145,775 permissions at the end of 2009.

We do not produce regional statistics, not least since we have abolished regional planning and regional government. We now have a locally-led planning system.

My Department has been carrying out a formal evaluation of the New Homes Bonus, which we will publish in due course.


Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
20 November 2014

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