I am interested in the Minister’s view that powers should be returned to local government. In that respect, will he review the permitted development rights that have been imposed on local government, whereby an office block can be converted into housing with no social content whatsoever and no requirement for planning permission? Does he not think it would be better if local government were able to determine what happened to those buildings and the number of social homes that were included in any developments?
Housing Supply
Proceeding contribution from
Jeremy Corbyn
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 July 2014.
It occurred during Opposition day on Housing Supply.
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