Housing and Planning Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Lords amendments 47B and 47C, and...

Let me begin by informing the House that I am placing in the Library today the Department's analy...

Is my hon. Friend, like me, struggling to remember a case in which a policy that was the subject ...

I have certainly not heard the position put so eloquently before. My hon. Friend is absolutely ri...

My hon. Friend is making a clear and compelling case. Does he not agree that, at a time when the ...

My hon. Friend makes a pertinent point that goes to the heart of what we are seeking to do. With ...

I am still a little confused about the position that local authorities will be put in if this ame...

Yes, there is no change to the position that has always pertained. It will be for local authoriti...

So let me be clear: there will be requirement for 20% starter homes but if, as is the case in mos...

That will be a matter for the local authority to negotiate. I know from talking to developers in ...

I accept that the Government have reasons for again rejecting the neighbourhood right of appeal—o...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have shared platforms and spoken about the strengths...

The last time the Minister raised this matter, I asked him a question, so I wonder whether he has...

Somebody who buys a home in this country lives in it for an average of seven years and the averag...

We began scrutinising this Bill last autumn, and it was bad at that point. After a string of conc...

Neighbourhood planning has been one of the success stories of this Government and a flagship of t...

That is exactly the position I face in my constituency, where a number of speculative planning ap...

I understand my hon. Friend’s concern. Indeed, a number of hon. Members are concerned about this ...

My right hon. Friend is making an impassioned case on behalf of his constituents, but does he not...

I think my hon. Friend has expressed the Government’s concern about the particular amendment and ...

I shall speak to Lords amendment 10B, 47B and 47C.

The Minister is right to say that the Co...

I shall refer to most of the amendments. I reiterate my concerns about the amendment relating to ...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Not at the moment, if my hon. Friend will allow. I am getting looks of admonition from the Whips,...

Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the principal costs of developing new housing is the cost o...

My hon. Friend, who has a great deal of experience in local government housing and planning, make...

Yes, the houses for sale in my constituency are much lower in price than in many other parts of t...

I take the hon. Gentleman’s point but local planning authorities like his in Sheffield have not b...

I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving way. On section 106 agreements, one of the big concer...

I like to think I am an hon. Friend.

Some of us remember four or five years ago fighting th...

I wish to speak briefly about Lords amendment 10B and to urge the Government to support it. The a...

My hon. Friend raises the concept of subsidiarity—the organising principle that decisions are bes...

The Bill does not simply go nowhere near that principle—it contravenes it.

Amendment 10B wo...

I want to start by associating myself with the comments made by the hon. Members for Erith and Th...

I must inform the House that the motion relates exclusively to England. A double majority is ther...

I must remind the House that the motion relates exclusively to England. A double majority is ther...