Julian Knight – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julian Knight on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will change planning procedures for local authorities to speed up the construction of new affordable homes to buy.

Brandon Lewis

The Government has committed, through the Productivity Plan, to introduce a dispute resolution mechanism to speed up section 106 negotiations to enable housing and other development to be built more quickly. We intend to do this through the Housing and Planning Bill.