Housing: Planning Permission

(asked on 20th January 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department have any plans to increase the powers available to Local Authorities to prevent house builders bring forward further developments where their previous developments have been found to be sub-standard.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 29th January 2021

It is a priority for this Government to build more high-quality, environmentally friendly homes and residents must feel confident that their property is safe. The Government is committed to improving recourse for building defects for new build homebuyers. We will ensure a New Homes Ombudsman is established and we will require developers to belong to it. We will include provision for the New Homes Ombudsman in the Building Safety Bill.

In addition, we are taking action to improve the quality of new homes and to tackle sub-standard new housing. This includes better design through the planning system, safer homes through the biggest reform to the building safety regulatory regime and being sustainable through the Future Homes Standard. Any new home needs to meet building regulations, and local authorities can take planning enforcement action if the development differs from the plans they approved when they granted planning permission.

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