PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Housing: Construction (24 October 2024)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance is available to Local Planning Authorities on lowering house building targets.
Asked by:
Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain)
Asked by:
Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain)
Answer
In our recent consultation on reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework, we proposed making the standard method for assessing housing needs mandatory, requiring local authorities to plan for the resulting housing need figure, planning for a lower figure only when they can demonstrate hard constraints and that they have exhausted all other options
Answered by:
Matthew Pennycook (Labour)
1 November 2024
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