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Housing: Construction

Commons · Question 411 · Tabled 17 Jul 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 26 Jul 2024

Question

Asked by Daisy Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to reduce housing targets for local planning authorities in the metropolitan greenbelt where nationally-imposed transport infrastructure is designa

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 26 Jul 2024

Housing targets are an important tool to ensure housing is delivered in the right places - this is critical in tackling the chronic shortage that the country is facing that means owning a home is a distant reality for much of the public.We cannot local a ...