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Social Rented Housing: Construction

Commons · Question 25416 · Tabled 21 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 6 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it his policy to introduce a requirement that a minimum proportion of large developments should be social rented housing.

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 6 Feb 2025

The revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) published on 12 December includes new Golden Rules for development on the Green Belt. Prior to development plan policies for affordable housing being updated in accordance with the revised NPPF, the af...