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Planning Bill

Proceeding contribution from Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 10 December 2007. It occurred during Debate on bills on Planning Bill.
On the question of section 106 payments, does my hon. Friend share my concern that they are often negotiated and the money is sometimes paid in lieu of housing development by housing developers in big cities, which does nothing for social housing? On other occasions, it is paid to the local authority to enhance the community with sports facilities or something, but that does not happen and the money sits in local authority accounts for year after year with no benefit to the community. It is unclear what happens to the interest payments on that money, let alone what it is eventually spent on. Should not there be a tougher process to ensure that the community gets a more foreseeable and immediate benefit?

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Reference

469 c74 

Session

2007-08

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Legislation

Planning Bill 2007-08
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