My hon. Friend describes a situation that I am sure we all recognise well. In my experience, many local communities engage positively with their neighbourhood and local plans to identify the housing need in their area, and then plan accordingly. Does she share my frustration, however, that because of the robust protections afforded to the Bristol and Bath green belt to the north of my constituency, despite my communities having made plans in Somerset, much of the former’s housing demand is being displaced southwards, so we end up having to absorb that as well, outwith our planning?
Neighbourhood Planning Bill
Proceeding contribution from
James Heappey
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13 December 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Neighbourhood Planning Bill.
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