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Housing and Planning Bill

I thank the noble Lord for that.

Where we have an agreement, we want local authorities to have discretion over how the new housing can meet the needs of their local communities, rather than being constrained in primary legislation to replacing the housing they sell with homes of the same tenure. We come back to the term “flexibility”. We think it is also important that local authorities are innovative and flexible in their approach to delivering more housing, so there are opportunities for them to contribute their land, make use of their HRA headroom or cross-subsidise from the development of market homes, which I mentioned to the noble Baroness.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
769 c1499 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
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