Housing and Planning Bill

Moved by

Lord Kerslake

My Lords, I declare my interests as chair of Peabody and president of the Local Government Associ...

My Lords, having sat through most of the proceedings on this Bill I recognise that it is probably...

My Lords, I will very briefly give strong support to what my noble friend Lord Young of Cookham s...

My Lords, I was not going to intervene. I certainly do not know what the noble Lord, Lord Kerslak...

My Lords, I endorse my noble friend’s remarks about the issues perfectly properly raised by the n...

My Lords, I thank all those who have spoken so clearly on this group.

As I said in my openi...

My Lords, I am grateful for the contributions to this debate on starter homes. I entirely underst...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

My Lords, I turn to another manifesto commitment—high value vacant local authority housing. I sta...

Moved by

Lord Kerslake

My Lords, Amendment 47E seeks to do two things. First, it seeks to put it beyond doubt that suffi...

Before the noble Lord sits down, and given that his previous amendment was subject to a claim by ...

My Lords, as I indicated, I have taken on board the comments made in the previous debate and revi...

My Lords, in speaking in support of the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, I remind the ...

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, for mentioning me. There was a little comp...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Kerslake, for the gracious way in which he withdrew the pr...

My Lords, I declare an interest as leader of a local authority and someone who has sat through a ...

My Lords, I will not detain the House very long. A passing comment by the noble Lord, Lord True, ...

My Lords, I do not wish to address any issues of policy in respect of the Bill or the merits or o...

I am grateful to my noble friend. I think the argument is stronger than he put in relation to fin...

My noble friend is absolutely right. As he knows, I always pull my punches, but he is right to in...

My Lords, last night the Commons spent all of 52 minutes debating the amendments passed by your L...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken so eloquently on the amendment, particularly my...

I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. I have listened intently to all of th...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

That this House do not insist on its disagreem...

My Lords, the Government place communities at the heart of the planning system. We have gone furt...

Moved by

Baroness Parminter

Leave out from “House” to end and insert “do insist on it...

My Lords, I very much welcome the comments made last night by the Minister in the other place, wh...

My Lords, first, I refer noble Lords to my declaration of interests and declare that I am a local...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, for her amendment and for the way she has w...

I thank the Minister for those remarks. I am obviously disappointed that, at this late stage, aft...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

My Lords, this amendment would place a statutory duty on the Government to undertake a review of ...

Moved by

Baroness Parminter

My Lords, we return again the to the issue of building the homes that we need, ensuring at the sa...

My Lords, I support the amendment. I, too, am sorry that the Government have not accepted the com...

My Lords, I obviously bow to the zeal of the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, on these matters. I only say...

My Lords, I was surprised that the Government rejected the Lords amendment in the other place las...

My Lords, just to say to the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, I will chase my noble friend. I think he m...

My Lords, I am deeply disappointed that the Government do not feel able to accept this amendment....

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

My Lords, the Government have recognised, here and in the other place, the depths of everyone’s c...

Moved by

Baroness Parminter

My Lords, this amendment and the previous debates concern ensuring that the homes that we want de...

My Lords, I should declare that I am the chairman of the Adaptation Sub-Committee to which the no...

My Lords, I was surprised that the Government rejected this amendment when it went to the other p...

My Lords, I emphasise that we are committed to ensuring that developments are safe from flooding ...

My Lords, the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, talks about a date of 31 April 2...

My Lords, I appreciate what the noble Lord, Lord Krebs, said about his committee reporting back n...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for those remarks. They are indicative of the thoughtful and...