Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Conclusion 6
Seventh Report - Reforms to national planning policy
Published 14 Jul 2023
Paragraph 34
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
We are sceptical of the Minister for Housing and Planning’s confidence that greater local plan coverage will result in more housebuilding. If there is no longer a requirement for up-to-date local plans to continually demonstrate a five-year housing land supply, and if housing targets in local plans are to be made advisory, then it does not necessarily follow that more local plan coverage will result in the same increases in housebuilding as under the current NPPF.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Seventh Report - Reforms to national planning policy (HC 1122), paragraph 34, 14 July 2023
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 29 November 2023 (deadline 14 September 2023).