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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Housing Targets: Planning System

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered housing targets and the planning system.

This is not the first time I have raised the subject of overdevelopment in my constituency. In the last 12 years, I have done so on a number of occasions, so I will not repeat …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Housing Targets: Planning System

"I could not agree more, and I will touch on one or two of those issues.

Ministers have recently made a number of encouraging remarks about scrapping mandatory top-down targets, but there is little concrete evidence to suggest that that will ever happen. The lack of clarity is causing uncertainty, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Housing Targets: Planning System

"Yes, I do agree. The Government should also take into account the amount of housing that has already been built in an area. There is no point expecting a local authority to deliver higher housing targets if it has already delivered 17,000 additional homes over a number of years, as …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Housing Targets: Planning System

"Yes, and I am pleased to hear the hon. Gentleman make his contribution. If he were not present for my Westminster Hall debate, I would fear that the world had come to an end; Parliament certainly would have.

It is noticeable that nothing has been done to address the problems …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Housing Targets: Planning System

"My right hon. Friend is right. Whoever sets the targets, whether at national or local level, when it comes to planning permission for development, there should be an insistence that the infrastructure is put in place before the housing is started. That can be done, but too often is not. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Housing Targets: Planning System

"I do agree. It is critical that local people have a say and set the targets, because unless there is local support for something, it will never work. Looking at it cynically, we might say that many local authorities are deciding to build houses in inappropriate places because they can …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Housing Targets: Planning System

"My right hon. Friend is perfectly right. I mentioned a number of developments in my area, one of which is on a brownfield site. We should be pressing to make sure that is done first, before we allow any other planning applications to be approved.

In thinking about mandatory housing …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Housing Targets: Planning System

"That point has been made to me before by a previous Minister. It is all very well saying that the infrastructure levy will provide GP surgeries, but there is no point having the surgeries unless there are doctors to put in there. There has to be a recognition that no …..."
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Written Question
Property Development: Planning Permission
Friday 11th March 2022

Asked by: Gordon Henderson (Conservative - Sittingbourne and Sheppey)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help prevent the practice of people avoiding enforcement action by submitting repeated retrospective planning applications for the same development in the event that previous retrospective applications for that development have been refused.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

A person who has undertaken unauthorised development has only one opportunity to obtain planning permission after the event. This can either be by means of a retrospective planning application or by means of an appeal against an enforcement notice.

The local planning authority can decline to determine a retrospective planning application if an enforcement notice has previously been issued.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Jan 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"10. What steps he is taking to deliver the education, health and transport infrastructure necessary to support the homes built in Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency over the last three decades. ..."
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