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795125

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Authorities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if his Department will consider the findings of the Place Alliance survey Design Skills in English Planning Authorities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	115658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>In a Written Ministerial Statement on 4 December (HCWS308), I set out provisions to support design skills, capacity and capability through the Planning Delivery Fund. This £25 million fund will help to support a step change in design quality of new development, as well as design advice and support to local authorities delivering growth.</p><p>The Planning Delivery Fund prospectus is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-delivery-fund-prospectus" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-delivery-fund-prospectus</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 04/12/2017 17:21:10 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

795272

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning Authorities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local planning authorities follow the guidance in paragraph 62 of the National Planning Policy Framework which recommends that local design review arrangements are put in place to provide assessment and support to ensure high standards of design; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of local design review arrangements for implementing that recommendation.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	115693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government believes that good design is fundamental to creating attractive, safe and healthy places, where people genuinely want to live. Furthermore, high quality design is key to making development acceptable. The Housing White Paper published in February this year set out a number of measures to strengthen national planning policy on design.</p><p>Included in these proposals are measures to strengthen the role of design expectations and pre-application discussions on design. Local and Neighbourhood plans are an essential way to give communities a stronger voice in the design of new housing, and to influence the design of what gets built in their area. As part of the White Paper we also set out our ambition to make clear that design should not be used as a valid reason to object to development where it accords with clear design expectations.</p><p>Following the Housing White Paper consultation, we are now considering the responses to these proposals on design, with a view to publishing a revised National Planning Policy Framework for consultation in early 2018.</p><p>As a further measure to support increased design capacity within local planning authorities, we announced the Planning Delivery Fund on 4 December 2017. This £25 million fund will help to support a step change in design quality of new development, as well as design advice and support to local planning authorities delivering growth.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 115694 question first answered 06/12/2017 16:26:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

795273

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Planning
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with local authorities on achieving the National Planning Policy Framework core planning principle that planning should always seek to secure high quality design and a good standard of amenity for all existing and future occupants of land and buildings; and whether he has any plans to strengthen the National Planning Policy Framework to ensure high quality design for the built environment.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	115694
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government believes that good design is fundamental to creating attractive, safe and healthy places, where people genuinely want to live. Furthermore, high quality design is key to making development acceptable. The Housing White Paper published in February this year set out a number of measures to strengthen national planning policy on design.</p><p>Included in these proposals are measures to strengthen the role of design expectations and pre-application discussions on design. Local and Neighbourhood plans are an essential way to give communities a stronger voice in the design of new housing, and to influence the design of what gets built in their area. As part of the White Paper we also set out our ambition to make clear that design should not be used as a valid reason to object to development where it accords with clear design expectations.</p><p>Following the Housing White Paper consultation, we are now considering the responses to these proposals on design, with a view to publishing a revised National Planning Policy Framework for consultation in early 2018.</p><p>As a further measure to support increased design capacity within local planning authorities, we announced the Planning Delivery Fund on 4 December 2017. This £25 million fund will help to support a step change in design quality of new development, as well as design advice and support to local planning authorities delivering growth.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 115693 question first answered 06/12/2017 16:26:04 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

795405

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department plans to make allocate to Homes England for the (a) compulsory purchase and (b) demolition of unsuitable housing to provide larger areas of housing regeneration.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	115826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2017 answer text <p>As the Chancellor stated in his Autumn Budget 2017 speech, over the next five years the Government will commit a total of at least £44 billion of capital funding, loans and guarantees to support our housing market. <br> <br> This funding will be used for a variety of purposes, including for compulsory purchase, but also for identification of sites, supporting small and medium enterprise builders, guarantees to support house building, transforming our rundown estates and more.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 11/12/2017 17:21:34 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

795407

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the remit of Homes England includes housing regeneration in areas of low housing demand.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	115828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>As the Chancellor set out in the Autumn Budget, the Homes and Community Agency will expand to become Homes England, bringing together money, expertise, and planning and compulsory purchase powers, with a clear remit to facilitate delivery of sufficient new homes, where they are most needed, to deliver a sustained improvement in affordability. As part of its remit, Homes England will work closely with combined authorities on their Housing Deals and will play an important role in supporting the Infrastructure Plan, Industrial Strategy and Local Growth Strategies.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/12/2017 17:11:44 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

795408

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to Homes England for the (a) identification and (b) clearing of sites suitable for housing developments.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	115829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The recent Autumn Budget demonstrated this Government's determination to fix our broken housing market. It announced £15.3 billion of new financial support for housing over the next five years, bringing the total support for housing over this period to £44 billion.</p><p>Of the new financial support announced, some £4.8 billion will be used for interventions on land, including relating to identification and clearing sites - £2.7 billion for the Housing Infrastructure fund , £1.1 billion for a Land Assembly Fund, £630 million aimed at tackling smaller stalled sites and £400 million for tackling our run down estates. The precise use these funds will be put to, will come through engagement with places to identify the barriers to delivering housing in their areas, and the specific sites and opportunities brought forward.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/12/2017 17:10:19 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

795425

registered interest
date	27/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Derelict Land
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to reduce further the regulatory barriers to housebuilding on brownfield land.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	115846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Housing White Paper set out the Government’s ambitious programme to bring brownfield land back into use in England. We have already introduced a requirement for local planning authorities to publish a statutory brownfield land register by the end of 2017, which will identify which previously developed sites are suitable for housing. Local authorities will be able to grant permission in principle, on suitable sites in their registers. This will provide early certainty about the suitability of sites for housing-led development before detailed and often costly development proposals need to be provided. Permission in principle will reduce risk for developers and improve the efficiency of the planning process for the benefit of all users.</p><p>It is our intention to introduce permission in principle by application for small sites later in the year, and we expect this will be a particularly helpful tool for small and medium sized builders developing on brownfield land.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 05/12/2017 17:15:09 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

795122

registered interest
date	24/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what consideration the Government is giving to the delivery of place quality in its national housebuilding strategy.
tabling member constituency	Wantage
tabling member printed	Mr Edward Vaizey
uin	115662
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>The Housing White Paper sets out a number of measures to strengthen national planning policy on design. These measures include:</p><ul><li>Planning reform to strengthen policy requirements for good design in the National Planning Policy Framework and in Local Plans.</li><li><p>Supporting wider use of Neighbourhood Planning.</p></li><li><p>Providing additional funding to authorities to help them plan for growth and improve design.</p></li><li><p>Working with Homes England to set quality criteria for funded housing programmes.</p></li><li><p>Highlighting examples of good practice in housing design through support for awards.</p></li><li><p>Highlighting best practice for community engagement, including the use of digital platforms to visualise designs.</p></li></ul><p>I also launched a government commitment to raising design quality at a recent Design Quality Symposium hosted by the RIBA, attended by members of the housing industry, local authorities, professional bodies, academics and other government departments.</p><p>In a Written Ministerial Statement on 4 December, I set out provisions to support design skills, capacity and capability through the Planning Delivery Fund. This £25 million fund will help to support a step change in design quality of new development, as well as design advice and support to local authorities delivering growth.</p><p>The Planning Delivery Fund prospectus is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-delivery-fund-prospectus" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/planning-delivery-fund-prospectus</a></p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/12/2017 17:40:28 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot

794340

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	5G
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, ?Media and Sport on the national roll-out of 5G networks.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	115313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>My Department is in regular contact with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the deployment of digital telecommunications infrastructure to support broadband and mobile connectivity, including the rollout of 5G.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/12/2017 13:23:14 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

794369

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 5.1 of the Autumn Budget 2017, what the ratio is of average house price and average worker’s salary in the North East; and what the home ownership rate has been in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside and (c) the North East in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	115342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The Office of National Statistics holds data on the ratio of average house prices to average worker's salaries. This can be viewed here:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/datasets/ratioofhousepricetoworkplacebasedearningslowerquartileandmedian" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/datasets/ratioofhousepricetoworkplacebasedearningslowerquartileandmedian</a></p><p>The home ownership rate for the North East since 2010 is shown below. Data on home ownership is not available below the regional level.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North East</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>owner occupiers as a proportion of all households</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td><td><p>65%</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td><td><p>64%</p></td><td><p>63%</p></td><td><p>61%</p></td><td><p>61%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: DCLG, English Housing Survey.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 01/12/2017 14:09:35 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn