Written questions

Social Rented Housing: Rural Areas

Commons · Question 42135 · Tabled 27 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 4 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to issue guidance to local authorities in rural areas with high levels of (a) executive housing and (b) second homes on revising the (i) points and (

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 4 Apr 2025

Local Authorities are responsible for designing and managing their own housing allocations policies to meet local need within the framework of legislation under which certain categories of people must be given priority. Social housing allocations guidance...