Planning and Infrastructure Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Debate between Lewis Cocking and Ellie Chowns
Committee stage
Tuesday 20th May 2025
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Tuesday 20th May 2025
(5 months, 1 week ago)
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Lewis Cocking
Does the hon. Member not agree that, in most local plans—if not all local plans that come forward; I took one through for Broxbourne when I was leader of the council—we do have targets for affordable and social homes? The reason lots of those do not get built out is because of the issues that we discussed earlier around viability. Just having a target does not necessarily deliver what she and I want to deliver: more social homes. We can have that target, but it is about the viability and the costs that developers try to get out of. That is why they do not get built.
Ellie Chowns
I thank the hon. Member for his point, which is actually exactly the same point that the hon. Member for Barking made, essentially—