PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Affordable Housing: Rural Areas (4 September 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of affordable homes delivered through section 106 agreements on sites of fewer than 10 homes in rural areas in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

There are no national statistics available indicating the proportion of affordable homes delivered through section 106 agreements on sites of fewer than 10 homes in rural areas in each of the last five years.

The Government's public consultation on proposed changes to national policy on section 106 planning obligations agreements closed on 4 May. Interested parties were invited to submit evidence on potential local impacts of the proposed measures, both in terms of developer contributions to infrastructure and affordable housing, and on unblocking stalled sites and increasing the pace and scale of small site development. Unrealistic section 106 agreements result in no housing development, no regeneration and no community benefits. Over 300 responses were received and the Government is now carefully considering the evidence submitted before announcing the outcomes of the consultation.

Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
10 September 2014