Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 19
3rd Report: Building more social housing
Published 27 Jul 2020
Paragraph 109
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Long-term delivery of social and affordable rented housing All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
It is right that the Government has identified the importance of reforming planning fees to support the capacity and skills of planning departments. It is imperative that local planning authorities have the right resources to deliver the social housing this country needs, and to ensure private developers deliver sufficient social housing on new developments. We recommend that the setting of planning fees should be devolved to local authorities, with a national minimum rate.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, 3rd Report: Building more social housing (HC 173), paragraph 109, 27 July 2020
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 14 October 2020 (deadline 27 September 2020).