Social Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

(asked on 17th May 2023) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the article by Dr Nick Thoburn of the University of Manchester entitled Razing the neighbourhood: consequences and alternatives to council estate demolition, published in April 2023, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of that report's recommendations on repair, refurbishment and retrofit of existing social housing.


Answered by
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
This question was answered on 23rd May 2023

Further to the measures under debate in the Social Housing Regulation Bill, approaches to regeneration should have the support of a majority of residents. Residents and the wider community should have the opportunity to have a say on the choices and options, master-planning and design.

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