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Written Question
Housing: Construction
Monday 4th March 2024

Asked by: Jane Stevenson (Conservative - Wolverhampton North East)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans his Department has to increase the number of homes built on brownfield land.

Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)

We are absolutely committed to building more houses in the right places – that is why we are prioritising brownfield sites in our towns and cities that already have the infrastructure in place to support households.

We have set out our intention to introduce a ‘presumption in favour of brownfield development’ to make it harder to block building on brownfield sites. We are currently consulting on this and will report back in due course.


Written Question
Collective Worship: Coronavirus
Monday 9th November 2020

Asked by: Jane Stevenson (Conservative - Wolverhampton North East)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will reverse the decision to prohibit public worship during the period of the new national covid-19 lockdown restrictions from 5 November 2020.

Answered by Luke Hall - Minister of State (Education)

Restrictions were brought on 5 November to urgently limit the spread of Covid-19. This meant that we had to close places of worship for communal worship, along with other premises where people gather and interact.

These restrictions have not been introduced lightly. We recognise that religious practice is of fundamental importance to millions of people which is why we are enabling individual prayer in places of worship for those religions who practice in this way.


Written Question
Derelict Land: Wolverhampton
Thursday 22nd October 2020

Asked by: Jane Stevenson (Conservative - Wolverhampton North East)

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the amount of brownfield land in the Wolverhampton local authority area.

Answered by Christopher Pincher

The National Planning Policy Framework defines brownfield as ‘previously developed land’. Our latest statistics, Land Use in England, 2018, show that 44.7 per cent of City of Wolverhampton Council’s area is brownfield land.

It is for each local authority to consider how best the land in its area should be used, and plan accordingly, and to identify and publish in its Brownfield Register those sites it finds suitable for housing-led redevelopment.