Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will introduce discretionary business rate relief for public toilets.
Answered by Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
The Government recognises the importance of public toilets as a valuable community amenity and has encouraged local authorities to keep them open to the public. We will keep under review the need for any further action to support local authorities in doing so.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to encourage local authorities to avoid raising council tax.
Answered by Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
Council tax decisions are a matter for local authorities. However, we continue to ensure that council tax-payers can veto excessive increases via a local referendum. We expect council tax to remain lower in real terms in 2018-19 than it was in 2010-11.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many affordable housing units have been completed in North Cornwall in each year since 2010.
Answered by Dominic Raab
Figures for additional affordable housing units supplied are published in live table 1008C https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply
Figures are published at local authority level, since 2009-10 figures are only available at Cornwall unitary authority level.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new build planning approvals there were in North Cornwall constituency in each year since 2010.
Answered by Dominic Raab
Numbers of major and minor residential planning applications decided by each local authority district, in the year to 30 September 2017, are shown in Live Table P136 at the following link.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics
Earlier versions of table P136 are also available from the same link:
These statistics are not available by parliamentary constituency.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homes were built in North Cornwall constituency in each year since 2010, and how many of those homes were affordable homes.
Answered by Dominic Raab
Estimates of house building for new build dwellings completions for England and in each local authority district, to September quarter 2017, are shown in Live Table 253a at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-house-building
These cover new build dwellings only and should be regarded as a leading indicator of overall housing supply. The Department also publishes an annual release entitled ‘Housing supply: net additional dwellings, England’, which is the primary and most comprehensive measure of housing supply.
More comprehensive statistics on additional affordable housing provided by local authority and private registered providers (housing association) are published in the Department’s live tables at:
http://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply
Table 1008C provides all additional affordable dwellings provided (new build and acquisitions) by local authority area. Separate figures for ‘social rent’, ‘affordable rent’ and ‘intermediate (shared ownership and intermediate rent)’ housing are shown in Tables 1006c, 1006a and 1007c respectively.
These statistics are not available by parliamentary constituency.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has plans to introduce a minimum level of access to outside space, be it communal gardens or private, as a condition of granting planning permission to medium and large-scale developments.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The Government believes that good design is fundamental to creating healthy, safe, inclusive, accessible and attractive places, where people genuinely want to live, and which can cater for all members of the community. In the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) the Government makes clear its commitment to high quality and inclusive design. The NPPF also encourages the use of design tools and processes which assess and improve the design of new development, including Building for Life 12 and design review
Following proposals consulted on in the Housing White Paper, the revised NPPF will be published for consultation before Easter, and this will incorporate strengthened policies on design.
Asked by: Scott Mann (Conservative - North Cornwall)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people in north Cornwall have participated in the right-to-buy scheme.
Answered by Dominic Raab
Figures for the number of Right to Buy Sales by local authority are available in live table 691 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-social-housing-sales