Draft Legislative Programme

I warmly welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement of the greater priority for housing and his willingness to reconsider the planning gain supplement. Does he recognise that there is a considerable variation in the performance of individual local authorities and that if he can find the mechanisms to raise the performance of the weakest up to those of the best—whether through section 106 or tariff agreements—we will get a substantial increase in the planning gain yield for necessary infrastructure and social investment?