Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 28
28
Deferred
Provide a timeline for place-based business case pilot projects and national rollout, ensuring Green Book reforms benefit all regions.
Recommendation
In response to this Report, the Government must provide a timeline for when it will launch its pilot projects using place-based business cases, and when the new model will be rolled out nationally. It must also set out how it will ensure the Green Book reforms will see the benefits of the New Towns programme realised across England, including in regions with lower potential land value uplifts. (Recommendation, Paragraph 122) 67 Delivering 1.5 million new homes
Government Response Summary
The government states initial engagement on the early adopter programme has already begun and an ambitious timeline will be agreed for the delivery of the early adopter programme and wider rollout of place based business cases in due course. Value for money assessments will adopt a holistic approach.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
67. Initial engagement across Government and local government on the early adopter programme has already begun. Government will be agreeing an ambitious timeline for the delivery of the early adopter programme and wider rollout of place based business cases in due course. 68. The Government will ensure that value for money assessments for the new towns programme adopt a holistic approach that considers the full range of monetisable and non-monetisable social, environmental and economic impacts associated with new towns. Land value uplift is just one benefit that will be considered in line with the Ministry’s appraisal guidance and the HM Treasury Green Book review.