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not, that is what I have to say. That is what I have to say on the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
matter. The clerk will now proceed to read the orders of the day. I | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
must inform the House I have selected the amendment in the name | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
of the Leader of the Opposition to move the second reading, I call the | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Secretary of State for communities Doctor Greg Clark. Thank you very | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
much Mr Speaker. Every parliament that is elected has a responsibility | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
to the future. A responsibility to do all that we can to ensure that | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
the lives of the next generation are better than those of past | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
generations. Nowhere is this more important than in ensuring that the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
next generation had their homes that they need. Indeed it is not just the | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
next generation, the impact of much public policy that we debate is on | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
the here and now of the next few years had. But if you look back to | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
the background, any city, town or village in Britain, it is obvious | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
that housing in Tours for many decades and in some cases for | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
hundreds of years. Everyone that is built is much more than a pile of | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
bricks and mortar or concrete and glass. The homes that we build, | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
shape the lives for better or for worse for Jenner generation of after | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
generation for people who live in them. As Churchill said, we shape | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
our buildings thereafter they shape us. Providing the homes that we need | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
is there is possibility that unites us all in this house. For many years | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
now, we have not built enough homes in this country. Is true of | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
successive governments and it is true for many decades. New | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
households have been forming in Britain at the rate of about 200,000 | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
a year. Yet the last year in which we built 200,000 homes was in 1988. | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
I will give way to the honourable ladies. Is he aware that over 4800 | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
children in Anfield live in temporary accommodation and I fear | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
that that 7% of children in Anfield and I fear his bill which damages | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
the number of affordable homes available will make this problem | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
immeasurably worse. I say to the honourable laid and she will see | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
this during my remarks is that our buildings and intent in this bill is | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
to increase the number of homes. That is our absolute objective so | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
that those children have the prospect of a home over there had in | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
the years to come. I was reflecting Mr Speaker on how it has been many | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
years, more than a generation since this country built a number of homes | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
in which we need. During the financial crash, house building in | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Britain suffered what might be called a cardiac arrest, because in | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
the third quarter of 2008, we were less than 20,000 homes away from | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
stop in building altogether. The lowest rates of peacetime | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
house-building since the 1920s. It was not just that banks would not | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
win, though they would not. It was a reckoning for a decade in which a | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
top-down planning system which the right honourable gentleman opposite | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
was magnanimous enough to concede had a few friends when he was the | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
planning minister, one that was imposed and it built bureaucracy and | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
presentment but not many homes. It followed a decade when the number of | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
affordable homes fell by nearly half a million. It followed a decade in | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
which less than 200,000 council houses a year were built in the | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
whole of England. A lost decade in which the rising double of | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
homeownership fell into reverse in 2003, for the first time since the | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
1960s. The secretary explained how housing positions and properties, | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
subsidizing that sale by selling housing properties, reducing local | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
incomes to build properties by reducing rent and allowing | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
developers to get away without building any social homes. How does | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
that help the thousands of people in housing need in my constituency? I | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
will adjust the point the honourable Jim to imagine what may but I will | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
say that the reason a lot to like it else is get requiring a new home | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
built for every home that is sold to their attorneys and that will | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
improve the housing stock in London. We had, Mr Speaker, a decade when | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
the housing markets almost ground to a complete halt. We had this fall in | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
homeownership for the first time since the 1960s. It was a period in | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
which the chairman of the select committee who I see in its place, | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
again I think reflecting a shared view of this, that the government he | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
supported for 13 years did not build enough homes. Other members of the | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
front bench, the shadow home secretary concluded that labour did | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
not do enough when we were in government as he said. We agree and | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
it is obvious from what I said that governments of different parties did | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
not do enough over the years as well. Airing the last Parliament, | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
home-building revived and we got ready building again. We scrapped | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
those regional spatial strategies, reformed planning policy, fiercely | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
resisted at the time and some of us, the honourable Lady I think is | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
winding up will member those debates that were very critical of the | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
proposals that we made. But now, three years on, we now have nearly | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
250,000 homes a year receiving planning commission up nearly 60% | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
since 2010. I give way to my right all both rent and then the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
honourable gentleman. Will the Secretary of State sent a clear | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
message to counsel today that there is a huge demand for affordable | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
homes to purchase from people who do want to be homeowners and the | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
councils can hit their affordable targets by bringing those forward | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
was white it is absolutely right. I think if we reflect on years past, | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
we know when 83% of people aspire to become homeowners, it is not just | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
homes for rent, it is affordable homes for purchase as well and we | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
are correcting what I think has been an anomaly historically. I give way | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
to the chairwoman of the select committee. He quoted what I said in | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
the last Parliament where I did except the government I supported | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
for 30 years did not build enough homes, but if you look to remainder | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
of the quotation is that the problem was not the Coalition but that's the | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
problem was that the Coalition government built even fewer. The | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
honourable gentleman knows very well that since the last government, the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
number of homes being built has increased very substantially, in | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
fact it has increased by over 50% since the time that we inherited | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
planning commission. As I mentioned, now running at almost 250,000 a | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
year. For the first time in many years, getting at the level that we | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
need to provide homes for the population as it is rising. I give | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
way to the honourable laid. Very serious questions. Given that the | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
bill fails to include any legal commitment to replace social homes | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
that are sold under right to buy on a one-to-one basis, will he accept | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
that setting off valuable counsel homes to find the extension of right | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
to buy means we're losing to social homes to rent in the term of just | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
one social homes to buy. That of an overall loss. You'll find that rate | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
of additional stock that is being provided in most bonds to the | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
reinvigorated counsel right to buy is running at over 141. The | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
agreement that we have been able to reach with the housing associations | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
and makes it very clear, and if the honourable Lady have not had a copy | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
I will make sure she does, that these funds will be replaced or at | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
least a 1 41 basis copy I should not be replaced because these homes | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
continue to be occupied and trigger additional home that is being told. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
I'm going to make some progress and I will give way and a second. I'm | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
going to talk about London and the honourable gentleman I think we'll | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
have something to say then. We scrapped the regional spatial | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
strategies and style planning commission increased as a result of | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
those reforms. We have allowed local communities to have more of a say | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
through now neighbourhood planning and now have over 1600 neighbourhood | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
plans adopted or in production. We built 260,000 affordable homes | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
nearly a third of them in London, and in the next five years we have | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
built 275,000 more, the most for 20 years. We have helped hundreds of | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
thousands of people achieve their dream of homeownership with | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
government schemes like Help to Buy, doubling the number of first-time | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
buyers in the last Parliament. I will give way. On the question of | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
affordable homes, when the council insist on a certain percentage of | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
any project having to be affordable, the consequence of this is that the | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
developer has to pay for them in cross subsidy by building an extra | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
number of larger homes. The effect then is to squeeze out the smaller | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
two bedroom and the smaller three bedroom desk cutting away the middle | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
of the housing lender. Can the right honourable member assured me that he | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
has considered this consequence and has adjusted in this policy and in | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
the bill? What I say to my right honourable friend is that when we | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
wrote the national planning policy framework, one of the things | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
reflected is that a local council or community should reflect the | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
entirety of the planning needs in their area of all types of | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
accommodation. That is reinforced in this bill. I will give way to the | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
honourable gentleman and I will carry on. On the issue of affordable | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
homes in London, does he accept his apartment's own figures that say | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
over the last three years 9025 homes have been sold in London under right | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
to buy and there have been 1310 starts on the placement. That is | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
seven homes sold everyone home started. If that is their record why | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
should we believe things will be different going forward was? I will | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
go on to say that in London during the first year of the reinvigorated | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
right to buy there were 632 homes sold and already a year before the | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
deadline for councils, there have been 1115 starts made. In fact, the | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
replacement of additional homes in London is running at a rate of | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
nearly two for one and that is something I hope he will celebrate. | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
When we reinvigorated the right to buy for counsel tenant, we ensured | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
that for every homes sold to residents and allows another home to | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
be built. It is as much a policy for expanding the housing stock as it is | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
for extending homeownership desirable though that is. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Nationally, of the 3000 and 54 additional sales made in the first | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
year, 3337 new properties have been started within two years. Councils | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
had three years to be able to build a more than one for one great. As | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
they said to the honourable gentleman, in London and the | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
additional housing rates of progression of additional housing is | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
running at around two for one. It is worth saying, Mr Speaker, that under | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Labour during the time when so few counsel homes were sold, that the | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
rates of new bills for every house sold under the right to buy was one | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
in 170. Which is something I would have thought they might have more | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
humility on. I will give way to the honourable gentleman. With my right | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
on the front agree with me that the barriers are bound building new | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
council houses as someone with some experiences in that are not around | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
replacement for right to buy but actually in the planning process as | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
dealt with during this bill? My friend is right and I stayed in our | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
conversation with authorities across the country is one of the things | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
they're looking to do in order to to able to what I think we want and all | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
sides of the House is to provide more mums really next-generation and | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
make sure the planning situation is speedier and more accommodating of | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
the needs for more homes especially on Brownfield sites which this bill | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
provides a major used for. Mr Speaker, if our task in the last | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Parliament was to rescue the housing market, now we must renew it. | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Welding even at the current rate is not enough. The lost years of | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
housing deficit, building fewer homes than the rate at which new | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
also performed has led to a chronic shortage of homes compared to what | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
this country needs. That means getting back to building homes at | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
the rate that we did last in the 1980s and before. It means getting | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
help to the 86% of people in this country who want to become | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
homeowners and it means taking steps to ensure that properties available | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
for rent are propped early managed with no place for rope landlords. Is | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
properly managed. Tuber by these homes requires working together. | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Parliament central government and local government, house builders and | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
housing associations, to find the land and grant many commissioners, | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
to finance development, build homes and to give people a chance to own | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
or to read them. This bill helps us do that. I will give way. What he | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
accept that the failure of the government to deal with the housing | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
crisis has meant that private rents have reached an all-time high of | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
?803 per month and more in London. And continue to rise, an increase of | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
20% since 2010. Yet rages have failed to keep up with that increase | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
-- wages. The honourable Lady makes my case for the. The consequence of | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
a large period of feelings of items we need to flex itself in the price. | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
This is why the purpose of the Government and this house is to | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
build more homes so that we can make sure they are available in quantity | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
to the next generation. I will give way. Will the honourable friend a | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
group meet that surely is not the fact that with house prices going up | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
3-4 fold in the time of the Labour government that is why young people | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
find it so hard to own a house that has house prices have soared way | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
beyond the price of salaries and at worst that was allegedly labour's | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
economic miracle. I could not agree more with my old boyfriend. Is | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
economics weight and simple. I do not know if it is the laws of | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
economics that say if you do not bold enough homes of the meat prices | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
will go up and get beyond the reach of ordinary people. And recognising | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
aspirations of these bills for those who own their own homes, does he | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
also recognised hopes of Londoners were homeless once a roof over their | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
shoulders. Can you recognise a case made that some agree with the | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
housing association agreement to write to buy but also recognise that | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
those who remain in London's cross subsidize the vital work to help the | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
vulnerable Londoners? I have said it is important we provide more homes | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
across the country but particularly in London where we will know that | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
the demand for homes from people of all types, families and single | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
people is very acute and the purpose of this bill will allow us to | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
provide more homes in London as I shall go on to say. I am most | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
grateful to my right honourable friend for getting way. Can I just | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
say I extend a warm welcome to this piece of legislation long overdue. | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
Can I point out, in my local authority area telephone District | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
Council we have some of the highest average property prices in the | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
country and therefore even with the 20% discount applied to properties | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
and barter homes it is difficult for our young people to afford those | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
homes soppy in addition, I wonder if the Minister could tell us how my | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
local council is going to be able to prioritise those homes were local | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
people. What I would say to my right mobile friend is that we need | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
provide homes of also works and it is important tuber continue to | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
provide homes for rent and to provide homes for purchase. She will | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
have constituents who have grown up in her constituency whose family | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
connections have been there for many years, whose friends and relations | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
are there. And who are having to leave her area, not because they | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
want to but because they have too. It is important to provide more | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
homes in areas such as hers as well as across the country. I will give | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
way to the honourable gentleman before I go on. In areas like | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
Brighton where land for development as extremely constrained, it is | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
likely that money that is raised from the right to buy will be spent | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
elsewhere outside of the city. Will you confirm now that money raised | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
through right to buy will be spent in the city? That is not the | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
experience across the country including in Brighton where the | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
councils overwhelmingly are able to build extra properties coming from | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
the sale of the homes that are there. I am not aware that Brighton | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
proposed to return the money to the government which means that they | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
have confidence that they're going to be able to provide those extra | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
homes. What I was saying Mr Speaker before I took some interventions is | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
that if we are to find the land and grant the planning commission to | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
finance Dell to build and build homes, it is essential that the | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
various layers in the housing market them together to do that. It cannot | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
be done individually. This bill precisely helps that. Let me take | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
the example of the right to buy. On homeownership, and aspiration that | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
86% of people in this country have, this bill makes it possible for the | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
agreement that the housing associations that Eric has made with | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
the government to extend the right to buy two all 1.3 million tenants | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
who currently do not have the right to become homeowners. Mr Speaker, it | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
is an agreement that is good for residents, but for housing | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
associations and good for the nation housing supply. Residents will get | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
the opportunity to realise their dreams of homeownership and housing | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
associations will be able to replace the homes sold, boosting the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
nation's housing supply. Mr Speaker, these were the words of the head of | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
the housing association's collective body. The national housing | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Federation. It has been a dirty year -- just -- and justice that counsel | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
Kenneth have the right to buy their homes but housing association | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
tenants have not. I strongly believe that when they signed a tenancy | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
agreement, housing association tenants did not find a way their | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
aspirations to become homeowners. Housing association tenants share | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
the same hopes and dreams as everyone else. They live on the same | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
streets, shop at the same stores, their children go to the same | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
schools. It is only right that they should have the same opportunity as | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
our counsel Kenneth. I will give way to the honourable gentleman. But he | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
confirmed that the national housing Federation does not support the sale | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
of housing Council property to fund this policy and will he confirmed | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
that the purchase of housing association properties will be also | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
available to EU nationals just paying taxes for three years? The | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
previous government actually reduced the residence qualification for | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
overseas nationals and what we have done is to propose to extend that so | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
the combination of the resident's requirement or social housing was | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
the requirement to be a resident for three years before the right to buy | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
comes in means there'll be seven years before there is any | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
entitlement for an overseas national. | :21:09. | :21:20. | |
When we announced in our manifesto the right to buy, I was pleased to | :21:21. | :21:30. | |
hear that. Some communities in my constituency wanted to know whether | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
the current exemptions around world exception sites will continue into | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
the Right-to-Die. Can the Secretary of State reassure me and my | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
constituents? What I would say to the House, this is a benefit of | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
having a conversation and a dialogue with everyone did in this. | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
Colleagues across the House want to be reassured that in those areas | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
where it simply is not possible to provide a new home, that a solution | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
can be found to allow the housing stock to be maintained their, while | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
at the same time allowing those in rural communities have the same | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
aspirations as others to own a home of their own. What we have agreed | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
with housing associations sector to their proposal is that through those | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
areas it will be possible for the Association, here's the really | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
opportunity for our constituents across the country. He will be | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
entitled to take their discount to a new home that the housing | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Association will build in the nearest area where it is possible to | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
build. That is a real resort for every rural area and the country. | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
That is the issue I wanted to raise. Will the Secretary of State confirm | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
that where they do decide to sell off higher value property is not | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
properties, and like for like has to happen in those communities or we | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
will continue to see a demographic loss of young people in smaller | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
communities. An advantage of reaching an agreement is who is | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
locally based, they are positively enthusiastic as the head of the | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
National Housing Federation made clear to the Select Committee the | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
other day. That is the advantage of this agreement. I will give way to | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
the former housing Minister. I commend him on securing a agreement. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
This is better than legislation. Can I say to him given that 90% of the | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
housing stock in this sector has agreed to this, is in our deeply | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
disappointing to watch the party opposite stuck in the past with? It | :23:53. | :24:02. | |
is disappointing. The approach that the party opposite take, not just in | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
this area, but if we look at our devolution proposal where I have | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
found them might tell you -- and my colleagues have filed a background, | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
it is entirely possible to talk income to a consensual agreement | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
with people who have the same interest as we do. That is possible | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
to do, the party opposite weather in devolution or in this matter, seem | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
to set their face against that kind of dialogue. End of the kind of | :24:30. | :24:41. | |
approach we take to establishing a consensus consents is. Does he not | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
find a perverse and incredible that the opposition to extend the right | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
to buy, to people on the link comes in this country should be managed | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
not just by that party, but people who are overwhelmingly... By | :24:57. | :25:05. | |
honourable friend makes an important point. If I can just illustrate, if | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
anyone has any doubt about the personal impact of this policy, I | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
will like to read from an e-mail that I received from a young mother | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
on the day that our right to buy a agreement with the housing | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
Association was announced last month. This woman says in her | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
e-mail. In the middle of the economic crisis in 2009, I was made | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
redundant from a job I had been in for 12 years of. I was left with a 6 | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
euros, a 3 -year-old in a newborn baby. Life was pretty much as grim | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
as they could get. For the last five years I have lived in the housing | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
Association... It was a lifeline, I am enormously grateful for the | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
safety, security and peace of mind that it brought me. Up until April | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
of this year, I simply accepted this was my life now and would always be. | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
I would be forever more just about comfortable, just about paying the | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
bills, just about paying for Christmas, just about living. In | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
late April that completely changed. I heard somewhere that the | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
Conservatives were going to allow housing association tenants the | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
right to buy their home. I had completely written off ever being | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
able to achieve that goal. I voted conservative in May because of that | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
hope. I watched and read intently all about the conservatives crazy, | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
ridiculous policy. I read all of the negative allow from housing | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
association, Labour and literally everywhere. And of course all of | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
these associations, politicians and the media have bigger voices and | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
people like me. By September I had resigned myself to the fact that | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
this looked like a lost cause. I am totally grateful to everyone in the | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
conservative government who has helped to push this forward. I | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
absolutely cannot wait until the point, hopefully in 2016I can be | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
holding the keys to the House that I own, a house that will be my savings | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
for the future and allow me to pass something on to my three girls. | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
Please pass on my very heartfelt gratitude to everyone involved in | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
shoring this is made a reality. For me it is life changing -- ensuring. | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
These are the people up and down the country at this policy agreed with | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
the housing association is giving new chances to. As this lady made | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
clear, it is giving her the chance to fulfil a dream she thought was | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
beyond her. It is disappointing to go back to my honourable friend | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
said, that the opposition are turning their backs on the | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
aspiration of people like that. Were from them the hope of homeownership | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
to have nurtured under this bill. He will know that housing | :27:48. | :27:57. | |
associations have a long history of independent bodies and that the main | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
reason for many signing up for this voluntary deal was to avoid the | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
reclassification of them as public bodies. It has done just that. When | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
did the Secretary of State know that this reclassification was on the | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
cards, before or after he may be agreement with those housing | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
associations? Mr Speaker, I am astonished we have that intervention | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
from the right honourable gentleman opposite. The Office of National | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
Statistics, completely independent of the government, have made it | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
clear that the reclassification that we intend to be temporary has | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
nothing to do with any action of this government. The reason it has | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
been reclassified was because of the clumsy provisions of a 2008 act of | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
Parliament. Take into the House would be right honourable gentleman | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
was in that department. He should be apologising for the predicament he | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
has put housing of so stations into. One of the benefits of the agreement | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
we have with the housing associations, reflected in this | :29:07. | :29:10. | |
bill, is that honourable members across the House have noticed there | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
is a Clause that allows us to deregulate the housing Association | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
said there. To correct the damage that he did when he was a minister | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
in the department. He gives the House partial information because | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
people know that the Office of National Statistics has made this | :29:30. | :29:31. | |
decision in light of government accounting changes brought in 2011. | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
Not just the provisions of the 2008 at. I ask again, what he say to | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
those housing associations that believed has acted in bad faith, | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
knowing that this classification was on the cards, but still going to do | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
that deal with them? It shows the benefits of a voluntary agreement. | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
If we intend, as we do, to recognise the historic voluntary nature of | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
housing associations, we're not going to use legislation to thrust | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
them into the public sector. As he did when he was minister. We are | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
going to use our legislation tour move those regulations that have put | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
them temporarily into the public sector. Ever there was a vindication | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
from the voluntary approach rather than the reaching for legislation | :30:22. | :30:25. | |
that the party opposite favour, it is an this agreement. I have been | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
speaking for over half an hour, I will make some progress I may give | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
away a little later on. I would pay tribute to the housing Association | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
to had the vision and force to extend home ownership in C it is | :30:41. | :30:47. | |
completely consistent. And that the lazy assumption that is a | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
contradiction between supporting the dreams of home buyers and ensuring | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
new homes are built, that must and. I look forward to, indeed, an | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
equally positive engagement with councils during the passage of this | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
bill. Their objectives are the same as mine. To ensure that as they | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
release the Apple II of the high-value properties they can | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
ensure that more homes are built. -- equities. Adding to the housing | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
supply as well as extending homeownership. At the request of | :31:18. | :31:19. | |
councils we have included in the bill a lexical approach that does | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
not require the immediate cell of properties. Gives us the chance, if | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
they wish to take it, to an agreed approach that will meet our mutual | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
objectives. Let me say word about London that has come out in | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
debates. Building homes in the capital is a priority not only for | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
my honourable friend over there, but for me to. Benjamin is really once | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
described it as a roof for every birth. It has turned out to be a | :31:49. | :31:55. | |
prophecy. 150 years later, the birds are still flocking. New housing | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
stock in the capital were a quarter higher than when we came to power. A | :32:01. | :32:07. | |
third of all affordable homes were in London and. After we reinvigorate | :32:08. | :32:10. | |
at the right to buy for tenants and Monday and, nearly twice as many | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
homes were built as were sold to the tenant, if I want to do more the | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
mayor has set up the most ambitious plan for house building in the | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
capital since the 1930s. I want to go further, so that a quarter of all | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
homes to be built are built in London during the years ahead. A | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
quarter of a million new homes over the next five years. I want the | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
right to buy scheme to be a major part of that and I will talk to | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
anyone in London local government to ensure that that happens. Just as it | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
was possible to have a meeting of mind with the housing associations. | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
There are other measures in this bill that will help. The Mayor has | :32:52. | :33:00. | |
the power to establish development corporations, to speed-up the | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
development of new housing across the city. Have absolutely determined | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
to make sure that the Mayor has the ability to deliver the homes that | :33:12. | :33:13. | |
London needs to maintain its position as London's from your world | :33:14. | :33:20. | |
city. I will give way to the member,. I very much welcome the | :33:21. | :33:31. | |
idea from the Minister that he recognises the exceptionalism of our | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
capital city in this regard. This bill made important progress | :33:36. | :33:41. | |
nationally, will he accept that this applies to London members on the | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
side of the House and on the other side of the House, there is a | :33:45. | :33:53. | |
recognition to tailor this bill for particular things in the city. Of | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
October have made it clear that the approach we found easy to | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
accommodate with the housing Association has absolutely been open | :34:03. | :34:09. | |
to local representatives. We're having very productive conversation | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
already. I want to turn to starter homes. During the 20 years the | :34:15. | :34:17. | |
proportion of homeowners under the age of 40 has followed by a third. I | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
will make some progress I know lots of members want to speak. What our | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
generation has taken for granted has been slipping out of reach. They | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
have long recognised the need for counsel to provide affordable | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
housing. Paragraph 50 set out this requirement. Housing for affordable | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
rent always be imported, until recently public policy has had too | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
little to say to those who would like to own their own homes and | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
struggle to do so. During the last three years be held to buy scheme | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
has helped the hundred 20,000 people with a deposit to buy a home, 80% of | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
whom our first home-buyers. We need to go further, the bill introduces a | :35:01. | :35:09. | |
requirement for councils to their planning functions to provide | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
starter homes available for first Time buyers. During the next five | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
years we want to ensure that public policy recognises, as it always | :35:17. | :35:19. | |
should have, that providing more affordable homes is an important | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
objective. If we are not sure about the next generation from the | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
opportunities that our generation has enjoyed. I give way to my | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
honourable friend. I welcome any of the measures in this bill. Following | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
on from his comments regarding the exceptionalism of London stop the | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
Oxford has the most expensive housing compared to income in the | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
country. Get the local area delivery zero affordable homes in 2013-14. It | :35:47. | :35:54. | |
must be accepted there is significant local problems existing. | :35:55. | :35:57. | |
I wise him to consider during progress of this bill how the | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
problem in high-cost areas can be addressed by the bills progress? I | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
have been clear in the constructive approach it that we intend to take. | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
It has been exemplified with housing associations, it is incumbent on all | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
accounts, including Labour councils to play their hearts. It is | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
imperative for all of us in positions of political leadership to | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
do what is needed to supply homes for the next-generation. I will give | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
way to the honourable gentleman and I will give way in a few moments to | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
colleagues on the other side. Talk about aspiration, does he recall as | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
well be housing minister ran father said in 1945, at his Labour | :36:41. | :36:48. | |
government will only go up by trying to build the Tories out of London | :36:49. | :36:55. | |
that. Our approach is to make sure that our government is associated | :36:56. | :37:02. | |
with the successes that every successful conservative government | :37:03. | :37:04. | |
achieves which is to house the people of our country for | :37:05. | :37:09. | |
generations to come. During the last Parliament, I will give way in a few | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
minutes to other members, I have been generous in giving way to | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
London members already in. Mr Speaker, during the last permit we | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
were formed and streamlined the system. I hope it is a genuine point | :37:28. | :37:33. | |
of order. I say much of that in expectation. The honourable | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
gentleman speaks again and again about the importance of this in | :37:38. | :37:40. | |
relation to London but will not take any interventions from London | :37:41. | :37:48. | |
members on the side. BR Bull Hammer has advertised the claims of London | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
members and I am sure there will be at the forefront of his mind. The | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
record has shown I have been generous in giving way to London | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
members. Including to the mayoral candidate of the party opposite. | :38:01. | :38:04. | |
That is not illustrate a fairness of approach, I do not know what is. I | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
will not, I have to make some progress. Mr Speaker, the honourable | :38:11. | :38:19. | |
gentleman that Mac during the last Parliament we were formed and | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
streamlined the planning system, we abolished over a thousand pages of | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
central policy and revoked the regional spatial strategy. Local | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
council have responded well as we knew they would to the devolution of | :38:30. | :38:36. | |
power. 82% of counsel with published plans, compared to 32% in May 20 | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
ten, since we introduced the MP Pierre, the number of new homes | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
planned for locally has increased by 23% copy 1600 neighbourhood plans | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
are in production or have been adopted. It is right to continue in | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
this direction of reform. That is why the bill takes step to simplify | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
and speed up the process to adopt a neighbourhood plan. And to give it a | :38:59. | :39:06. | |
legal forced early. Has assisted councils whether it is through | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
establishing valve too operations. And returned it says to the 80% of | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
councils have not yet reduced a local plan that five years after the | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
MPP Apple was published, that is long enough for them to have done | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
something. If plans are not being produced by them the government will | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
have the power to intervene. -- MPPF. And help bring that to | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
fruition. All members of the hospital to see it for right for | :39:36. | :39:41. | |
development. The Morland brought back into use tomorrow countrysides | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
can be safeguarded. That is why the bill establishes a new strategy | :39:47. | :39:50. | |
register for Brent the lands of the councils can have an up-to-date and | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
public accessible source of information from lands suitable for | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
housing. I will give way, my honourable friend has been the | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
patient. Then I will give way to the honourable Lady. I will like to take | :40:02. | :40:11. | |
them back to starter homes. Was are a good idea, I am concerned that are | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
proposed price cap of ?150,000 in London could be interpreted as a | :40:18. | :40:19. | |
prize of God. -- for hundred What reassurance can you give me on | :40:20. | :40:32. | |
that point? It is a cap and not a guided. Would want to seem homes of | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
prices well below that. He is right to set that. I give way to the | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
honourable Lady. Has the Secretary of State will like to listen to what | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
e-mail I received from a single mother that is worried about the | :40:50. | :40:53. | |
threshold. That means that families like her own lower incomes will be | :40:54. | :41:00. | |
pushed to the high levels of poverty. I'm very happy to see the | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
e-mail to which she refers that she would like to see me after the | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
debate, of course I will take that up. It is only fair to expect that | :41:09. | :41:15. | |
those who are fortunate enough to be earning a decent salary are not | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
going to continue to have the subsidy that would otherwise be | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
available to housing associations because of course, the revenues that | :41:24. | :41:27. | |
are raised from that stay with housing associations so they can | :41:28. | :41:37. | |
build more poverty. -- properties. Cannot applaud the advent of | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
neighbourhood plans, that have been adopted with enthusiasm for many in | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
my constituency. Katie Baird mine that one organisation that has the | :41:48. | :41:53. | |
power to develop too destroy his policy, would he urged them were | :41:54. | :41:56. | |
never the plan is in place to respect the wishes of the local | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
community and stay well away? I will take my honourable friend's | :42:04. | :42:05. | |
suggestion seriously. The part of the bill entrenches the rights of | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
neighbourhood is to produce a neighbourhood plans. Against what is | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
the case, and less than enthusiastic to strict. I hope we will see less | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
of that, the measures in the bill will help. He may know that there | :42:20. | :42:27. | |
are some concerns amongst general aviation users and indeed rural | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
communities that they may lose small and medium-sized airfields if there | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
would be redesignated as building sites. It was hoped that the opening | :42:39. | :42:50. | |
around it would not constitute a site. I hope he can reassure me and | :42:51. | :42:56. | |
those who share my interest in this that airfields will not be | :42:57. | :43:04. | |
classified as Brandon filled sites. Particular concern about this and | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
has been expressed well. There are reviews of the status of that. I | :43:09. | :43:12. | |
rule reassure that his views are strongly communicated to my | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
colleagues, who are overtaking our review. Mr Speaker, all members want | :43:18. | :43:25. | |
to see brandfield prioritise for development. That is why it got mad | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
so that councils can have an up-to-date and publicly acceptable | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
source of information and land for housing. We want to see planning | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
commission given for 90% of those sites by 2020 which would be of | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
particular benefit, this is important. Krhin in particular, | :43:45. | :43:55. | |
often cannot afford to enjoy the costa Lays and uncertainty of... Mr | :43:56. | :44:03. | |
Speaker as we build, more homes and support home-buyers we want to | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
ensure that existing housing is managed fairly. This bill will do | :44:08. | :44:11. | |
something that many tenants and indeed landlords have been calling | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
for for many years. To take action to crack down on the world landlords | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
who can make tenet lives a misery and the reputation of the great who | :44:21. | :44:27. | |
are responsible. We will establish a database of them and help councils | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
tackle problems in their area to extend finds to series preachers of | :44:32. | :44:39. | |
the law and offenders who put the lives of the tenants in danger. Mr | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
Speaker, Pridgen has come a long way over the last five years, halfway | :44:44. | :44:47. | |
through what the Prime Minister has called this turnaround decade. We | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
have gone from having the biggest deficit to the prospect of a budget | :44:52. | :44:55. | |
surplus. We have more people working than ever before in our history and | :44:56. | :44:59. | |
we have put the housing market crash behind Haas and Britain is building | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
again. We have further to go, providing homes for our country | :45:06. | :45:08. | |
needs is a defining challenge for all of us in this house. The bill | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
that we have before us today advances us towards that Bill. Is a | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
plan for more homes and more homeowners. A plan that the country | :45:18. | :45:22. | |
voted for six months ago and the general election. A plan that we are | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
now putting into effect. A plan that offers the next generation what | :45:28. | :45:29. | |
previous generations have been able to look forward to, a home of their | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
own. I commend it to be house. Hear! Hear! The lesson is that the ill be | :45:34. | :45:38. | |
read a second time. After five years of failure on the | :45:39. | :45:48. | |
housing from the conservative ministers, we desperately needed a | :45:49. | :45:53. | |
bill to get people hit by the cost of housing prices in this country | :45:54. | :45:59. | |
some hope that things will change. This is not that Bill. There are | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
some parts of the bill that we walk on, but I have to say they are few | :46:05. | :46:11. | |
and far between. We do welcome steps to control the worst private | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
landlords, steps to help young people that their foot in the | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
housing market, steps to speed up the purchase of. We aim to make | :46:21. | :46:24. | |
these much stronger as the bill goes through Parliament. If you are a | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
young person or a family earning an ordinary income in trying to get on | :46:30. | :46:33. | |
then this is a bad deal for you. If you want to buy your own home, the | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
so-called starter homes are a nonstarter for you. Unaffordable to | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
most people on average incomes. If you're a working family on modest | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
wages in the Council or housing association, you face or read being | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
hyped as a result of this bill. If you're worried about rising rents, | :46:55. | :47:00. | |
insecurity in your private renting home, one of four England's families | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
with kids bring these kids up in private renting accommodations, this | :47:06. | :47:17. | |
bill does nothing for you. Average rents now consumes some 46% of | :47:18. | :47:25. | |
average weekly income. This is unsustainable for families, we need | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
an increase in the affordable homes, would he agree with me that this | :47:31. | :47:33. | |
bill will lead to a decrease in affordable homes and do nothing to | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
help these families unless it is significantly amended? My honourable | :47:39. | :47:44. | |
friend is right. This is a bill that would only lead to a decrease in | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
affordable renting and buying. This is a bill that will lead to a huge | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
loss and those numbers, particularly in areas like hers. She is right to | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
point to the problems that they faced with ever rising rents. Of | :47:59. | :48:02. | |
course, and she looks at the conservative manifesto there is not | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
a single word about the millions of people who now live in phase their | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
whole lives in private renting accommodations. The this is why this | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
bill does so little for them and if such a big missed opportunity. I was | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
intrigued when I listen to the e-mail being read earlier. I heard a | :48:23. | :48:29. | |
young woman who came to see me cool, doesn't she have the same | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
aspirations. Why is it the case that we can only sell off counsel and | :48:35. | :48:38. | |
private housing. Waisea private renting sector completely protected | :48:39. | :48:46. | |
in this bill? Barilla problem into the row weakness in the private | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
renting spectrum is that people who rent their homes from private | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
landlords have so little protection, so little rates and so little basic | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
blue dress on their landlord does not do what they should do as part | :49:01. | :49:08. | |
of the obligation. I will give way. I wanted to respond to the point he | :49:09. | :49:11. | |
made about affordability, the fundamental fact is that of rental | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
prices and house prizes will be made more affordable by an increase in | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
supply. That is the one thing that will decrease prices and that is up | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
a heart of this bill. He is right, he should suggest his remarks with | :49:28. | :49:33. | |
the Secretary of State there. In the last year the Tories build the last | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
government built the fewest number of affordable homes in over two | :49:39. | :49:40. | |
decades in this country. In case he wants to know the number, 10,920 | :49:41. | :49:50. | |
affordable homes to social rents. 10,000 compared to three times that | :49:51. | :49:54. | |
number in the last year of the last Labour government which | :49:55. | :49:57. | |
incidentally, when I was labourers housing minister. Surely he will | :49:58. | :50:06. | |
concede that this time five years ago he was making the same arguments | :50:07. | :50:09. | |
against the affordable homes regime, in fact that has given more | :50:10. | :50:16. | |
financial autonomy and authority to register providers which has | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
delivered 260,000 affordable homes. Quite the contrary, I was a strong | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
supporter of that. In fact, I negotiated with the rest of the | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
government and unprecedented switch, ?1.5 billion, so we could | :50:32. | :50:34. | |
build more affordable, genuinely affordable renting homes to build | :50:35. | :50:41. | |
the country and get it through the recession. At the honourable | :50:42. | :50:44. | |
gentleman wants to know and look at his own governments record, it is | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
true that almost eight out of ten of the affordable rented homes for | :50:49. | :50:51. | |
social rent that they claim are the... Were actually started and | :50:52. | :50:58. | |
funded under the decisions I made as the last housing minister. Given his | :50:59. | :51:05. | |
ownership he claims on this issue, if you regret the loss of form | :51:06. | :51:08. | |
hundred 40,000 affordable homes under the last Labour government? | :51:09. | :51:20. | |
Iver Gratz that -- I will grant that we did not do enough just like the | :51:21. | :51:28. | |
last five years of this government to make sure that were homes were | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
sold, there was a enough funding to make sure they could be fully | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
replaced, one for one. Like for like in the area they were lost. That is | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
a big flaw in the bill before us this afternoon. That is a big flaw | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
that will become more and more exposed in every one of our areas | :51:49. | :51:51. | |
and every one of the areas of the constituencies of members opposite | :51:52. | :51:54. | |
in each of the Will you be subject of regret, and | :51:55. | :52:07. | |
constituency between 1997 and 2007, house prices increased by 200%. On | :52:08. | :52:15. | |
eight fee of badly regulated mortgages which led to an inevitable | :52:16. | :52:18. | |
crash and a very deeper session. Does he regret the credit crunch and | :52:19. | :52:27. | |
the excess lending... That caused the affordability crisis that we | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
have today? There were failings in the ways that tanks and the | :52:31. | :52:36. | |
financial services were regulated in this country and every other | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
developed country. What I do regret is that our ministers with and too | :52:41. | :52:43. | |
hard to the party opposite that were urging us to cut the regulation of | :52:44. | :52:48. | |
the banking sector. What I am proud of is that when that deep economic | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
recession hit, driven by the global ranking crisis, that ours was a | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
government prepared to step in to try and help the country through | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
that deeper session. To help people stay in jobs, to help businesses | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
keep going and to help people stay in their own homes. I was proud to | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
play a part in not with a ?4 billion affordable housing programme, | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
building the affordable homes to rent and buy that people needed | :53:20. | :53:26. | |
across the country. ?4 billion, Madam Deputy begin in 2009-10. Cut | :53:27. | :53:32. | |
under this government to less than two thirds of the billion pound. I | :53:33. | :53:36. | |
give way to my honourable friend. I'm grateful to my honourable friend | :53:37. | :53:38. | |
because one of the first acts of this conservative liberal volition | :53:39. | :53:44. | |
when it came into power but to scrap the home starts key which was aimed | :53:45. | :53:48. | |
at keeping homes being built and rather than stalled because of lack | :53:49. | :53:53. | |
of backing from the banks. Fewer homes were repossessed during the | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
deepest recession we have had in nearly a century than under any | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
recession we saw under the Tories. My honourable friend and I were very | :54:04. | :54:06. | |
close on this and he is right. Betwixt our programme of putting | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
public money into starting building on sites that were stalled because | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
of the deep global banking crisis and recession was part of building | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
the homes we needed, creating the jobs we needed and because we | :54:21. | :54:23. | |
insisted on apprenticeships in return for that support we got more | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
partnerships across the country and in terms of the mortgage rescue | :54:29. | :54:34. | |
scheme he will remember back in 1991 under the last for a recession, they | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
put nothing in place, they were not concerned about homeowners who are | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
faced with repossession of their own homes soppy despite a much deeper | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
recession, much more serious economic programmes, our mortgage | :54:48. | :54:50. | |
rescue scheme meant that war than a third fewer people than in the 1991 | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
ever had to move out of their homes and at this the basis on which they | :54:56. | :55:03. | |
were building their wives. -- lives. The so-called starter homes | :55:04. | :55:13. | |
programme means in the words of shelter that it will help only those | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
who can afford homes in the open market. 450,000 pounds is not an | :55:20. | :55:26. | |
affordable home. My honourable friend anticipates one of my main | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
concerns and consider citizens about the provisions of this. He | :55:31. | :55:33. | |
anticipates one of the major criticisms I think many people take | :55:34. | :55:39. | |
at face value at first what conservative ministers say because | :55:40. | :55:41. | |
the more they look the less they will like it. The more they look at | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
the less they will see is support for them and their aspirations and | :55:47. | :55:51. | |
future. I think my honourable friend for giving way. According to the | :55:52. | :55:54. | |
government's on figures with 200 right to buy being sold and replaced | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
it starts at zero, we are already in a deficit of 200 homes with ?450,000 | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
being 20 times the average salary in print, does my honourable friend not | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
agree with me that we need to start building genuine affordable homes in | :56:12. | :56:18. | |
less than 450,000 as soon as possible. Batting deputies become my | :56:19. | :56:20. | |
honourable friend is right. Interest, the scale of the cost of | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
housing crisis that we face in this country requires every part of the | :56:27. | :56:29. | |
housing sector from private house builders to housing associations to | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
councils to do a great deal more and we need more homes of all types | :56:34. | :56:39. | |
including social rented homes. The fundamental flaw with this bill and | :56:40. | :56:45. | |
this government's plans is that they have put all the chips on starter | :56:46. | :56:51. | |
homes and they put all the chips on homeownership. I will come onto the | :56:52. | :56:55. | |
reason why this is such a mistake for the homes we need in the | :56:56. | :57:00. | |
future. I give way. I think that my horrible friend for giving way. Is | :57:01. | :57:06. | |
the concern like IM that smaller housing situations are already | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
beginning to streamline their programmes. For example 150 housing | :57:13. | :57:18. | |
world holds have been told by East and housing that that they are on | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
intermediate market rent schemes. Many key workers were either have to | :57:24. | :57:28. | |
express an interest to buy homes within a week or be edited within | :57:29. | :57:32. | |
two weeks. Isn't that an unforeseen consequence and what plans does the | :57:33. | :57:35. | |
government have to do something about those families? I would say to | :57:36. | :57:42. | |
my honourable friend this is not an unforeseen consequence, this is a | :57:43. | :57:45. | |
laudable conflict and what they see in the policies of this bill and | :57:46. | :57:50. | |
government. The danger with this gung ho freedom for housing | :57:51. | :57:56. | |
associations and -- to build means that housing associations, many that | :57:57. | :58:04. | |
are not in the stems case will see this as the green light to become | :58:05. | :58:09. | |
almost indistinguishable from private developers. The big risk for | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
some is they lose sight of their social mission and their boards and | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
trustees and directors will simply not be strong enough to represent | :58:19. | :58:24. | |
the tenets long-term interest and ensure we get the homes we need for | :58:25. | :58:27. | |
the future. I give way to my honourable friend. Does my | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
honourable friend agree that far from the consensual approach that | :58:33. | :58:35. | |
the secretary of state talks about housing associations have been | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
suffering uncertainty about their assets and have heard their tenure | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
agreement on rent disrupted and therefore because they rely heavily | :58:45. | :58:47. | |
on borrowing from the markets, actually some of them have said they | :58:48. | :58:53. | |
will not build any more affordable homes and some are advising down the | :58:54. | :58:56. | |
numbers they were going to build as a result of this bill? My honourable | :58:57. | :59:03. | |
friend in her characteristic way because she knows as much about this | :59:04. | :59:08. | |
as anyone in this house pointer finger to a really fundamental | :59:09. | :59:10. | |
problem Secretary of State and his ministers now have. That is one of | :59:11. | :59:15. | |
trust. How can councils and housing associations that just three years | :59:16. | :59:19. | |
ago were giving a ten year guarantee about the rent that work in place | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
for them and the properties they managed so that they can plan their | :59:25. | :59:29. | |
business and the development and their maintenance. How can they | :59:30. | :59:33. | |
trust this Secretary of State and his ministers? To keep their word in | :59:34. | :59:37. | |
the future? This is a really serious problem with housing associations as | :59:38. | :59:44. | |
well. How can they trust a monetary deal, the terms of which are not in | :59:45. | :59:48. | |
this bill, give them no guarantee for this Secretary of State or his | :59:49. | :59:51. | |
successor will welsh on those or that the Chancellor of the Exchequer | :59:52. | :59:58. | |
will march in with his big boot and override the Secretary of state | :59:59. | :00:01. | |
unless the guarantees that they seek as the basis of the steel are in | :00:02. | :00:04. | |
this legislation, I feared the worst for them. I wondered if he had any | :00:05. | :00:15. | |
idea where if the Secretary of State has yet told us what will happen to | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
the tenets of the 261 national housing Federation members not | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
represented in this deal? I find this a problematic if you grin that | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
we are not given the details of the so-called vote that was taken by | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
housing associations to enter this voluntary deal. Is a deal that does | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
not therefore reflect the majority were certainly a large number who | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
did not respond or were not consulted. There is some serious | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
question for the Secretary of State because in this bill, despite these | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
housing associations saying they do not want to wear have not said they | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
will find up to this deal there is legislation that gives the | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
regulators power. Never the less compliance on homeownership on this | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
housing associations. Points to the point my honourable friend made | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
earlier. How can you really take at face value the words of ministers | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
about this being a voluntary deal when behind it lies regulation that | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
is going to enforce the compliance? If they do not have that in place, | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
think of the point of view of the tenants that the honourable | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
gentleman hardly mentioned in his speech. How can this be a right to | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
buy without the legislation behind it to give those rights? Without | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
that legislation, without that ability to challenge the landlord if | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
a landlord says no, this is not a right to buy. This is a right to beg | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
to buy. I give way. I thank the honourable gentleman for giving way. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
As a former housing minister he would be aware that housing | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
association tenants whether on it affordable went have significant | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
budgetary protection from eviction. I just hope you'll take the | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
opportunity in response to the intervention made by the number | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Tuesday that housing associations cannot be evicted on two weeks | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
notice. I am surprised because the honourable gentleman has had | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
experience on the local government select committee, if he had listened | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
harder to the point by honourable friend made here she was talking | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
about those tenants who were on intermediate rents without resort of | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
protections and rights that he claims they should have. This is a | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
real problem and this is a straw in the winter. This is a sign | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
potentially of problems to come. Now Madam Deputy be figure I'll make | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
some cash Madam Deputy the guy will make some progress because ministers | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
has bent the last moment waving labour. They have their own track | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
record now soppy the inescapable background to this bill is that that | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
record is one of five years failure on every front, on homeownership of | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
which the Secretary of State devoted most of his speech. Homeownership | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
they'll each and every year -- well each and every year under the last | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Parliament. Each and every year since 2010. Is the lowest of the | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
generation, homeowning households are down by 200,000 under that | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
government, up by over a million under the Labour government that | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
preceded them. Does he still takes the view that the fall in | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
homeownership is not a bad thing which is what he said when he was | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
housing minister? Oh dear Madam Deputy Gert is that really the best | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
the Secretary of State can do? In 2009, as labour's housing minister | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
we were struggling with the deepest recession following the global | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
financial crisis. I was putting in place programmes to help lift the | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
economy and warned board and to put in place the mortgage rescue scheme | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
that helped homeowners struggling with the finances to stay in place. | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
Honestly, it will not wash to have the Secretary of State and ministers | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
continually coming back to what happened under labour. They have | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
five years, it is their record and on homeownership that has been young | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
people hit hardest. The number of young people owning their own homes | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
now has fallen by not doing that more than a fifth since 2020. I have | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
given plenty of trance and I will later on. I had to make progress. On | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
private rent while family incomes have admitted ever rising private | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
rents are up by one fifth. By ?1600 a year since 2020. On homelessness, | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
which Madam deputies began have the under labour it is up by over a | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
third under the Tories and rising rapidly. Housing benefits and the | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
cost to the taxpayer have been risen by almost ?4.5 billion during the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
last five years despite some punishing cuts like the bedroom tax | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
and at the same time as housing investment was flashed. On house | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
building, the Secretary of State, the House of Commons confirmed to me | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
that the last government built fewer homes than in any peacetime | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
government since Lloyd George's in 1920s. The housing minister if he | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
does not take the House of Commons let me take him to his own | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
statistics from the live table 213. This shows him, Madam that the, that | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
the lowest number of homes built under labour was in 2009. Following | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
the deepest economic crisis and recession were 100 years. Below list | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
in 2009, built under labour -- the lowest. Still higher than the year | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
with the highest number of homes built under the Tories in 2014 which | :06:25. | :06:36. | |
was 117,000 720 -- 100 17,720. Five years of failure on all fronts and | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
this bill does nothing to correct the causes of that failure and in | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
many areas will make things much worse. Let me turn now to the | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
context of this bill -- content. I can certainly stop taking | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
interventions, that is what has helped me up. -- held. Is clear your | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
colleagues want me to carry on. Young people and families in the | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
country on ordinary income face a cost of housing prices, the need for | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
affordable homes has never been greater. But this bill don't like a | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
death note for the ability to build affordable homes to rent and buy | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
better so badly needed in urban and rural areas alike. It strangles the | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
ability and obligation of the public and the private sector to build | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
affordable homes. Does my right friend agree that shared ownership | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
is one of the most affordable options for middle income and | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
leave? 95% of these families will be able to afford a 3 bedroom homes | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
shared ownership and does he agree that this bill is a huge missed | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
opportunity for a big shape up in this area? It is a big shape up in | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
this area? On if we want more people to be able to own affordable homes | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
in the future. My honourable friend A's exactly right. -- is exactly | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
right. When I talk about right to buy I talk about shared ownership | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
homes often build their obligations of development, often managed by | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
housing associations that will get choked out under this bill. I will | :08:18. | :08:26. | |
come to that point in a moment. Clauses 56 - 72, Madam Deputy Gert | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
required the forest sell-off of affordable counsel homes to fund an | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
extension of the Dubai to the housing association homes. A power | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
for the chancellor to impose an annual levy on councils. Honestly, | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
this is like some pre-Magna Carta monarch running short of cash for | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
his exploits and there is no prospect and no plan for the | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
replacement of these homes. No one or one like for like replacement | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
with new homes and certainly not in the area where they are lost. This | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
is unworkable and wrong and we will oppose it. I am really grateful for | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
you having way. In York we have over 3000 people who have the aspiration | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
to rent homes from the Council and yet a city like York a high-value | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
area will have to sell about 1500 of those homes. Is not preferred for | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
national incentives in this bill? My honourable friend is absolutely | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
right. She just heard the described these provisions as unworkable and | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
here heard me say we will oppose it and we will challenge it at each | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
stage of this bill through parliament and I hope she will help | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
me and my colleagues on the front bench do just that because the truth | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
is that in deputies the Gert many areas of the country both rural and | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
urban especially in London, these counsel homes will not go to | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
families struggling to buy for the first time, they'll go to | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
speculators and available to buy-to-let land organizations. The | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
greater the demand for affordable housing in an area the higher the | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
value of houses on the more the Chancellor will take an annual levy | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
up. Does he not find it remarkable that at a time when new homes being | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
built are being bought by investors overseas this government is now | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
forcing councils to sell off family homes for those very same warned | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
investors at a time when the need for this to have homes that are | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
affordable has never been greater? Indeed and my right horrible friend | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
makes a very powerful point and beaks powerfully for the capital. He | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
speaks for a capital and those councils in that area led by labour | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
and led by conservatives happy it is exactly in London and place of like | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
York where the high-value homes will be forced to be sold. In Westminster | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
almost three quarters of their counsel homes about the high-value | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
threshold nearly 9000 homes first to be sold in order to pay for this | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
policy soppy not in Westminster, not in London, but across the country to | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
pay for the Chancellor and the conservative party's manifesto | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
place. In Kensington and Chelsea it is 97% of the stock. These are the | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
areas of London which are most expensive which the need for | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
affordable housing is greatest. My guess is that the conservative | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
leader of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster have had an influence on | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
the conservative leadership of the local Government Association because | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
they made clear they oppose this plan and they have warned of the | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
consequences in particular on counsel waiting list, homelessness | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
and housing benefit. Alongside this clauses 3-6 of the bill overturned | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
25 years of planning soppy established in 1990 with cross party | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
support by the conservatives which requires developers to help provide | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
affordable homes. The very system of planning obligations that has | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
delivered nearly a quarter of a million generally lead affordable | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
homes to rent and buy in the last decade will be satisfied by | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
ministers and opposing starter home obligations only. It is a field day | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
for developers and a dark day for families wanting to rent or buy | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
affordable home. Isn't the legislative proposal on starter | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
homes worrying for two reasons? The reality is this cause will not add a | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
single property being built over the next course of this Parliament. | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Every property being built as a starter home will be replacing a | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
home that would have been built under one .6 obligations on an | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
affordable basic. Secondly, it is an incredibly centralising measure | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
where central government will dictate the details of planning | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
commissions on each side of local authority and sees a planning | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
application form upright my honourable friend is right on both | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
counts. Is committee is currently conducting an inquiry into how | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
associations soppy I look forward to the report he produces because this | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
will have great authority on the cross party basis and help the House | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
and the other place get to grips with what this housing and planning | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
bill really means for the future. The chartered Institute for housing, | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
the independent professional experts say this means for the future is a | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
fire sale of affordable counsel homes to fund the pension of right | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
to buy could mean the loss of 195,000 genuinely affordable social | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
rented homes in the next five years. While housing associations may well | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
build more homes as they sell on the right to buy, many will increasingly | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
build for open market sale and rent. Indeed a third now say already they | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
will no longer build any affordable homes. For organizations with a | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
social mission who have played a big part in providing publicly funded | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
homes for decades, this is almost as shocking as one third of the NHS | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
hospitals think they're only prepared to take private patients. | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
This bill is a milestone movement for affordable housing in this | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
country and is a massive step that words. Madam Deputy Gert let me turn | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
to starter homes. We welcome the government wanting to make a home | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
ownership more accessible to people on ordinary incomes and the people | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
in particular. The job and home ownership over the last five years | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
to its lowest level for a generation means that it now essential element | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
to meeting the country's housing needs and aspirations. But what is | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
being done is not working and these plans will do too little to help. We | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
need fresh thinking radical ideas and a much writer public debate for | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
the future and that is why I have commissioned the chief executive of | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
the country's largest house builder. One of the largest house builders to | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
undertake an independent review into the decline in home ownership | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
aborted by an panel of major figures in housing and economic. The | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
secondary estate must face the fact that the government starter homes | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
was amply not be avoidable and will be a nonstarter for families on | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
ordinary incomes. Sheltered calculate across the country you | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
would need an income of ?50,000 a year and a deposit of 40,000 to | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
afford a starter home and in London you would need an income of 77,008 | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
deposit at nearly 98,000. This is simply out of reach for most of the | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
middle income working families who need help buying a home the most. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
Madame Deputy Speaker there is no control in this bill to stop those | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
who can't afford to buy without help from the government taking advantage | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
of this game. There is a big risk that the people who benefit most are | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
those who need the help least and as shelter says with a starter almost | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
programme the only group it appears to help on a significant scale will | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
be those already earning high salaries who should be able to | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
afford on the open market without assistance. Let me make this point, | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
Madame Deputy Speaker, when this was first put forward prior to the | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
election it was clearly intended to be focused on using that land that | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
had not already been designated for housing. The aim for it was to be a | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Brownfield exceptions policy which will be a welcome addition to | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
existing affordable and other housing. In the policy now | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
proposed, starter homes are clearly to be instead of not additional to | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
affordable homes to rent. Not my words, Madame Deputy Speaker, but | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
the words of the previous permanent Secretary of the Communities and | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
Local Government department Lord Kerslake. Is the government's on | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
impact that confirms starter homes will not be additional to housing | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
supply. The point my horrible friend chair of the select committee made | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
in his intervention. Before this bill goes through the House, the | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
government must as a minimum change the bill to do two things. First, | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
make any starter homes to develop lower obligations additional to | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
affordable homes not a substitute. Second, to put in place be | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
guaranteed and guard against any of the scheme. Let me touch on | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
planning, part six and seven before moving towards a conclusion. In a | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
political panic about falling so far short of the new bill numbers they | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
have pledged, this bill gives ministers wide range to impose new | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
house building and override both local community concerns and local | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
plans. With a total of 32 new housing and planning powers for the | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
centre, this is legislation that signalled the end of localism. We | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
welcome the measures to speed up the planning process where there is a | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
clear case for doing so and whereby the local decision-making is not | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
ignored. But there are serious concerns and I said to the housing | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
minister there are serious concerns and you might want to a Japanese | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
when he winds up in the House this afternoon. There are serious | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
concerns about some aspect of this bill which will be shared on all | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
sides of the House. These concerns are heightened burst by the fact | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
there have been no consultation at all on the most radical of these | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
planning proposals and second that so much is left as open ended powers | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
for the Secretary of State. August three, four, 97, 102, 107, these are | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
very far-reaching changes and instead of laughing I suggest the | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
honourable gentleman looks at the bill and looks at those five clauses | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
soppy these are far-reaching changes which must be clarified and | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
justified by the Secretary of State which should be restricted as this | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
bill goes through Parliament if they cannot be justified. To do so, I say | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
to the separate area of state and the Minister was about to intervene | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
will he guarantee because he should do this, will he guarantee that the | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
draft regulations are available to the House when these clauses are | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
debated in the Public Bill Committee? I will give way to the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
housing minister on that point. I think that the right honourable | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
gentleman for generously giving away this afternoon. What you just | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
clarify he is going to acknowledge the fact that some of what this bill | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
is looking to do and we'll deliver is actually moving on from the | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
atrocious legacy he left at the housing minister when he had just | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
88,000 home-building starts followed by 95,000 over the last two years of | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
the labour government. Below a levels of the 1920s and that is the | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
legacy he left us with. No wonder they look so concerned beef behind | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
them because that's bluster, this promise of big housing numbers from | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
which they are falling so far short will not wash. He has his own track | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
record, never mind blaming labour or the last Labour Parliament, five | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
years of failing in housing under conservative ministers. That is what | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
he has to answer for. Madame Deputy Speaker, by the way he did not | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
answer the important point that house and the proper scrutiny of | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
this bill on behalf of the public whether the strapped regulations for | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
these sweeping new bank hours will be available to the Public Bill | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
Committee when they come to deliver. He is nodding his head, I | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
am not a sure if that is a yes or no. If he will give us a agenda he | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
will give us ASAP can intervene. I was just like to know if you'll | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
answer the question I intervened to ask if he recognise he left a legacy | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
of 88,000 starts, the lowest since the 1920s. Madame Deputy Speaker, | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
eight out of ten of the genuinely affordable homes he claims credit | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
for what started under a, commissioned under us, paid for with | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
a commitment of investment undressed up yellow I give way. This is a | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
straightforward and honest question if I may put to him. Without direct | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
intervention of the Secretary of State, how does he deal with a | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
situation where 35% of local planning authorities had not taken | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
their plans to the whole system and one in five have now is land in | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
future? That is a major supply-side issue. How would his party deal with | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
that? I will send the honourable gentleman a copy of the lion's | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
report with exactly the answer to that problem. The problem for him | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
now is that, even where councils and local communities have local plans | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
in place there are powers the Secretary of State is taking under | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
this bill to override those even when they have been consulted upon, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
agreed, even when they are in place soppy that should worry the | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
honourable gentleman. I will not take more interventions because I | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
want to finish on this note. This is an extraordinary personal and | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
political retreat for the Secretary of State. He was Mr localism, the | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
Minister for seeking deals, the Minister who signed off the radical | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
devolution of housing finances of the Council in 2012. Now he is the | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
Minister fronting this bill with 32 new centralising powers and a | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
legalized has to grab for the chancellor from counsel. He was Mr | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
conservative minister with political roots in the old FTP and the | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
Minister who managed to strike a widely welcome balance in the | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
national planning policy framework in 2012 between the rights of local | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
residents and the requirements to build more homes. Now he is the | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
Minister explain the extreme plans that would all but into a new | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
affordable housing for social rent and overturned 25 years of planning | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
law to let house boulders completely off the hook over new affordable | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
homes and mixed development. He was Mr decency, Madame Deputy Speaker. | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
The well-meaning minister, that people felt they could deal with and | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
trust. Now he is the Minister that would have known the OS as | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
reclassification of housing associations was on the cards who | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
ducked the questions I put to him earlier but never the last anchorage | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
housing associations to the voluntary deal soppy he is the | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
Minister that the House have seen this afternoon who has to duck and | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
dive to abate the truth that counsel and housing association homes sold | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
off under this bill will not be replaced 141 like for like, let | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
alone in the local areas in which they are lost. I do have some | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
sympathy for the Secretary of State. At the risk of disagreeing with my | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
honourable friend I do have some sympathy for the Secretary of State. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
It is a bill driven by the politics of the Conservative Party, not the | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
leads of the country. The reality is that it is not his bill. That cuts | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
to tax credits, this is the chancellors work. Of his political | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
fingerprints all over it. It is a bill that makes the same mistakes as | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
tax credit, dividing politics, overriding good policies. Above all, | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
it fails the same low and middle income working families that the | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
Tories claim they will represent. It will lead to a huge loss of | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
affordable homes to rent and buy and be let downs of those who believe | :25:25. | :25:32. | |
the Tories election. Is a bill that will prove to be bad policy and | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
politics. It will be a slow burn problem all the way to 2020, we will | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
oppose it in the voting lobbies tonight. The original question was | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
that the bill be read a second time. When an amendment is proposed on the | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
order paper, the question is that the amendment be made. There are 55 | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
members wishing to speak in this debate. I am going to starve a time | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
limit on five minutes. That does not include the spokesperson. As members | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
could keep interventions to a minimum, then we may get through the | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
list. The more interventions that are the less likely we are to get | :26:19. | :26:19. | |
through the list. I shall speak quickly. This bill has | :26:20. | :26:31. | |
many excellent provisions that will improve the availability of housing. | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
I should concentrate my remarks on a narrow aspect of its provisions as | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
set out in Clause 22. This call and chapter that relates to world | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
landlords who break the law, treat their tenants badly and do not | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
maintain their properties in habitable condition. The bill | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
states, the Secretary of State will establish that landlords and local | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
housing authorities have responsibility to maintain the | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
content of the database. There is no doubt that this information is | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
necessary for the protection of tenants and the and everyone in | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
general. It will be a useful tool for everyone and carrying out there | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
options. Local authorities do not know which properties and their | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
areas are rented privately or who were were the landlords are, it will | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
be difficult to compile such a register. It is after the event will | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
be landlord has been brought to their attention. A simple look at | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
cost method of acquiring the necessary information will be to add | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
a question to the registration forms seeking information about the owner | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
of the property as proposed in my private members bill will come the | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
local government financed tenure information bill. This will | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
facilitate the implementation of Clause 22 of the housing and | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
planning bill while providing a database of privately rented | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
properties and landlords from which to root out the unscrupulous ones. | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
The information will be readily available for the affected of those | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
affecting the private renting sect and taxation of landlords. It will | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
help with housing related issues such as investigating illegal | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
subletting and unregulated houses and loss of occupation and benefit | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
fraud. Also planning enforcement and public health issues. Will help the | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
police were criminal offences are being committed in HMRC war rental | :28:36. | :28:42. | |
intercom is not clear taxation purposes. Councils may do this | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
already but they're not required to do so. In past the registry has been | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
considered, but not work as suggested, only the good landlords | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
would comply even with sanctions for not registration. A registered of | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
good landlords will lead us no further or forward in finding the | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
minority of landlords operating under the radar in causing misery to | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
their tenets. Registration costs would inevitably be passed on to | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
tenants. In 2009, an influx of assessment of the scheme for | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
landlords was found difficult. Were licenses were used the results for | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
Apache. The private renting sect increasing in size, it is important | :29:29. | :29:35. | |
to see a workable solution to offer tenant greater protection against | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
rogue landlords, over 4 million households are rented privately in | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
2013-14. Of the majority of private sector tenants are satisfied, | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
driving up standards may only progress if privately rented homes | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
amid landlords are identified. An estimated one third of privately | :29:58. | :29:59. | |
rented homes do not meet decent home criteria. And one in six preventing | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
threat to health or safety. Condition such as damp, unstable | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
electrical appliances, lack of insulation, leaky plumbing, faulty | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
fire alarms are all examples that some properties do not meet decent | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
home criteria. Local authorities will act in the capacity or the | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
resources to effectively inspect and enforce issues in the private | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
renting sector on a widescale. Readily available information on the | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
owners of privately rented our parties in the area would enable | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
local authorities to targeted finite resources on trouble some tentative | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
addresses via the land Registry. Deregister requires, by Clause 22, | :30:45. | :30:51. | |
it is welcomed by citizens of my bureau and the residential landlord | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
assumes two Association which is... The simplest of collecting this | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
information about the tenure of properties and identified rogue | :31:03. | :31:04. | |
landlords will be by putting an additional question on council tax | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
registration forms and I shall be tabling an amendment to the housing | :31:11. | :31:12. | |
and planning bill to these affect which will find favour I hope as the | :31:13. | :31:22. | |
bill progresses. Think you for allowing me to participate in this | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
debate. It has been classified, following up on points she defends. | :31:28. | :31:48. | |
I will read what he said, ... It is clear it could be someone that has | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
consequences over the last... They are not challenging the | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
classification, but there is no luck. This classification does have | :31:57. | :32:08. | |
complications. In terms of my contribution, I will look a definite | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
aspects and approaches, I hope I will benefit both sides of members. | :32:14. | :32:32. | |
At a bird is accepted as one of the leading registration, since 2012 | :32:33. | :32:39. | |
Scotland has been classes made unintentionally as homeless. Have | :32:40. | :32:47. | |
also seen over the years the number of people have been under that | :32:48. | :33:07. | |
registration reform. I want them to think about what is in front of | :33:08. | :33:18. | |
them. Lastly,... Stickers on the opposite suggest, Scotland | :33:19. | :33:33. | |
at the same time we have still been finding social housing, I think the | :33:34. | :33:48. | |
debate comes to political allies, it is against home ownership and that | :33:49. | :33:49. | |
is not how it should be. He has given us a list of director, | :33:50. | :34:01. | |
Agassi explained under eight years of the government, more than 150,000 | :34:02. | :34:06. | |
people are still on council waiting list in half of those homes in | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
Scotland still fall short of the official quota. All houses meet the | :34:11. | :34:36. | |
standards in Scotland. It is incomparable. | :34:37. | :34:48. | |
There are many affordable houses being built in Scotland. We are | :34:49. | :35:06. | |
doing our best. In terms of right to buy, it has legislated to take that | :35:07. | :35:14. | |
forward. I should point out, some of the | :35:15. | :35:28. | |
members on the opposite house, not as our point of interest... I do | :35:29. | :35:36. | |
know people benefit from that, I see what happens people by their homes | :35:37. | :35:44. | |
that happens over the years. It is a policy that was right at the time. | :35:45. | :35:54. | |
We now see the problems from that. That has led to the problems of | :35:55. | :36:04. | |
today. Many areas previous have all disappeared from the stock. | :36:05. | :36:14. | |
That drives up the housing benefit costs... It was estimated ... | :36:15. | :36:53. | |
Another unintended consequence is that in some cases people that | :36:54. | :37:15. | |
bought houses many years ago, people get trapped in houses because there | :37:16. | :37:19. | |
are not enough houses available for them to move into. For example | :37:20. | :37:33. | |
counsel houses, they prioritise... You do not always have houses | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
available for people who need them. Another unintended consequence, I | :37:38. | :37:47. | |
have seen this as a counsellor, people buy the properties that all | :37:48. | :38:03. | |
seems fine when you sign the dotted line,... | :38:04. | :38:20. | |
You are left with that affected some housing schemes because they were | :38:21. | :38:39. | |
not paid for the upgrades. I am asking why they will want to repeat | :38:40. | :38:48. | |
that. He speaks about the one for one replacement, I think that is as | :38:49. | :38:53. | |
fraught as the previous policy. -- fraud. At the same time, it is to | :38:54. | :39:10. | |
polarize. It the government is proposing to cut, but we are looking | :39:11. | :39:23. | |
at a subsidy for people to buy the homes they are already in the. | :39:24. | :39:31. | |
Building more homes will drive down the cost of rent and of course | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
create more jobs. Instead there is going to be a | :39:37. | :40:35. | |
target for and that, so family homes will be sold off. That does not do | :40:36. | :40:44. | |
anything for long-term housing needs. On that point, the council | :40:45. | :40:53. | |
next to his favourite borough, it has a very wise leader who states | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
that right to buy could wipe out swathes of social housing and it | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
would not be able to house people who need housing because of this | :41:01. | :41:03. | |
bill. I agree with that intervention. In terms of the | :41:04. | :41:14. | |
government, we have Artie seemed that it has not worked. The number | :41:15. | :41:21. | |
of right to buy sales. Another experience I have seen, I | :41:22. | :41:44. | |
have seen the benefits of targeted counsel homes. Special need housing | :41:45. | :42:09. | |
and housing design for the older community it is life changing for | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
those tenants. It is heart-warming to hear those stories. We can talk | :42:13. | :42:21. | |
about the statistics and targets, hi Matt our role people and families | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
and that is the most important thing. Another consequence about | :42:26. | :42:33. | |
housing staff of the health benefits. If homes are more | :42:34. | :42:43. | |
energy-efficient that leads to healthier families. As stated | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
earlier on social housing will reduce... One thing I asked the | :42:50. | :43:03. | |
housing Minister to consider I will appreciate if... That is something | :43:04. | :43:18. | |
that maybe he can bring up. I am going to finish by highlighting | :43:19. | :43:33. | |
the housing Association is seeming as a highly effective mechanism for | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
keeping debt off of the balance sheet. The benches opposite have | :43:40. | :43:50. | |
argued that in order to save future generations it has to happen and | :43:51. | :43:51. | |
that is one of their arguments. Therefore, I will conclude by saying | :43:52. | :44:11. | |
some economics had up and some do not. | :44:12. | :44:19. | |
As mayor my right honourable friend has overseen 100,000 affordable | :44:20. | :44:28. | |
homes built in his time in London. Which is 25,000 more than his | :44:29. | :44:36. | |
predecessor. I am not going to give way. We have little time. As he will | :44:37. | :44:42. | |
lead knowledge when he speaks later on, the gap between supply and | :44:43. | :44:50. | |
demand remains very wide. With this action it will grow wider. Few | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
people doubt that London is the greatest city on earth. Is why so | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
many people want to come here, with that success down to much of the | :45:01. | :45:10. | |
success of my honourable friend. I feel obliged to take an intervention | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
for my honourable friend. The big boot current Mayor of London has | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
made any errors when it comes to housing. -- does he think. He has | :45:21. | :45:28. | |
25,000 more than his predecessor. And he has laid the framework for | :45:29. | :45:38. | |
even more progress. Because of the success of London, the population is | :45:39. | :45:47. | |
expected to grow by 1.5 million. Already the average first-time home | :45:48. | :45:57. | |
cost for hundred 12,000... Closing that gap between supply and demand | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
is absolutely a priority. We can, we have the tools, finance and land. | :46:02. | :46:07. | |
There are vast swathes of public-sector Brownfield land we can | :46:08. | :46:15. | |
unlock. We are going to have to unlock that land to build the homes | :46:16. | :46:18. | |
we need to. We have an opportunity to redevelop. Such as 1950 states at | :46:19. | :46:25. | |
the end of their life, for which the opportunities are vast as long as he | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
had the consent of the residents who live there. This housing bill today | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
is part of the story, no one here pretends that this is the solution | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
to London's housing prices. But it will give large numbers of people a | :46:38. | :46:43. | |
chance to own their own homes, for hundred 40,000 units in London will | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
gain the rights abide. More blended families will not have the right to | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
purchase their home at the discount funded through the sale of | :46:53. | :46:55. | |
high-value counsel homes. In principle, I strongly support this. | :46:56. | :47:06. | |
There is no doubt, my honourable friend is on the front bench, we | :47:07. | :47:13. | |
know this bill needs amending. Lending counsel homes are far more | :47:14. | :47:16. | |
valuable than also were. Without this change were able to see a | :47:17. | :47:19. | |
disproportional flow of resources out of London. We should extend the | :47:20. | :47:28. | |
right to buy, but at the same time we also must have a significant | :47:29. | :47:32. | |
number of low-cost tenant. It is possible, the amendment I would | :47:33. | :47:37. | |
table will ask for a binding guarantee that London will see a net | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
gain in affordable housing as a consequence of this policy. I | :47:43. | :47:48. | |
guarantee that in addition to the replacement of homes, London will | :47:49. | :47:54. | |
see at least two low-cost homes built for every one sold. What is | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
the intent of the amendment being tabled today. I have to say with the | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
support of every single bench conservative colleague represented | :48:04. | :48:06. | |
in the London constituency and I strongly urge the government to work | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
with us to help us to deliver what we need to. Alongside this binding | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
commitment, I do want to pay tribute to my right honourable friend for | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
securing a bill with the housing Association, the right to buy his | :48:20. | :48:22. | |
way to channel eight ten of the amount of cash into London's housing | :48:23. | :48:28. | |
Association. They said their credit ratings are likely to improve. I | :48:29. | :48:37. | |
wanted David Montague, and I asked him how we can work together to turn | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
that cash into new low-cost homes. It is clear from his response that | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
they are well up for that challenge. They have committed to more than | :48:48. | :48:50. | |
doubling their investment programmes as long as the next mayor works with | :48:51. | :48:53. | |
the current government and shows that that land which I mentioned | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
earlier is freed up. And I have made that commitment as a mayor who may | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
be successful in the next election. If we get this right London will see | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
a significant net gain in affordable homes from this policy, two low-cost | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
homes built for everyone Council house sold. Up with a commitment | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
from London's housing Association. That if a bill that opposition can | :49:23. | :49:25. | |
support if could just resist the temptation briefly to wave their | :49:26. | :49:32. | |
flags during this debate. I am conscious of the time limits I will | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
be brief on the further measures. I strongly welcome the governments | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
commitment to start her homes, no doubt that will help a lot of people | :49:41. | :49:43. | |
but he needs to work for London. The 20% discount on the home and London | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
is out of reach for many people. The bottom line is that we are going to | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
need to use everything was available resource to deliver affordable homes | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
at all incomes. Finally, the aspiration of homeownership must not | :49:59. | :50:01. | |
blind us to the difficulties of the millions of people who are renting. | :50:02. | :50:14. | |
I wore warmly welcomed plans to crack down on rogue landlords. | :50:15. | :50:24. | |
I begin with those aspects of the bill that I agree with. There are | :50:25. | :50:31. | |
some measures and the primary renting sector which I can support, | :50:32. | :50:43. | |
because the proposals on fixed... The readme payment orders or | :50:44. | :50:46. | |
recommendations of the Select Committee in its report in the last | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
Parliament. I am sorry the government has not gone further to | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
do with the problems of the short tenure is that most people have in | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
the private renting your. Or the problem of lack of resources for | :51:02. | :51:16. | |
local orgies. -- local of Ortiz. -- authorities. I hope the government | :51:17. | :51:19. | |
would consider putting them into this and ensure that there are five | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
yearly checks on the electoral safety in homes. This is something | :51:25. | :51:27. | |
the government could do easily which would help greatly. In terms of | :51:28. | :51:38. | |
affordable housing, if we are going to achieve the 200,000 homes a year | :51:39. | :51:41. | |
the government expires or the 250 homes we need to. We can only do | :51:42. | :51:48. | |
that with a serious long-term plan to build social housing for rent in | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
this country. That is why it has been a long-term decline in house | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
building because that whole site to has diminished. My concern is that | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
the measures and this bill will actually lead to fewer houses being | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
built at friends people cannot afford and that by the end of this | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
Parliament means fewer homes to rent in 2020 and then there were in 2015. | :52:10. | :52:20. | |
Take the right that some housing associations if they choose good was | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
placed properties on it like for like basis in the same locality. It | :52:25. | :52:30. | |
will depend on the circumstances. I have not seen any information from | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
ministers or anyone else that has persuaded me that local authority | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
has any chance of replacing the properties they have to sell off on | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
a like for like aces. Not any chance at all. I will be interested if he | :52:44. | :52:52. | |
has evidence to give to the Select Committee that he will provided. The | :52:53. | :52:57. | |
problem with the Libra by dashed rights abide. There is not a new | :52:58. | :53:04. | |
home proposed by these legislations, every starter home | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
that is built will be built instead of an affordable home under current | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
arrangements. That is the case. In the last ten years, they have been | :53:16. | :53:24. | |
built by that agreement. They will not be built in this Parliament. | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
There will be starter homes instead. Here is a whole range of | :53:29. | :53:35. | |
problems for affordable rents that one now will not be billed according | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
to these puzzles. I will give way wants to this member. | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
What does he make of the comments of the chief executive of the national | :53:46. | :53:51. | |
housing Federation who said that our government will see an increase in | :53:52. | :53:55. | |
the numbers of houses being built and ease the pressure in all parts | :53:56. | :54:02. | |
of the market? He gave evidence the other day he has said he believes | :54:03. | :54:05. | |
that more homes of the built under the right to buy proposals, he is | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
actually said that they don't support the proposals to force the | :54:10. | :54:12. | |
sell-off of council homes to pay for it. He has made it very clear about | :54:13. | :54:18. | |
that. On top of that, the national housing Federation came out very | :54:19. | :54:23. | |
strongly indeed against the changes in rent levels which the charts | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
server brought in his budget which will cause significant reductions in | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
the number of homes built by both local authorities and housing | :54:31. | :54:34. | |
associations. The city council would lose ?27 million of revenue, the | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
other housing Association, ?7 million of revenue because of these | :54:39. | :54:41. | |
measures in the course of this Parliament. You have a key problem | :54:42. | :54:48. | |
with the legislation, having congratulate the Secretary of State | :54:49. | :54:50. | |
for the decentralization proposals the other day in debate of the | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
chambers, there are very centuries indeed. The starter homes programme | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
micromanaged section one 06 agreements where local authorities | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
do a deal on each individual site. There'll be an imposition of how it | :55:05. | :55:08. | |
should be done, what homes should be built, on each individual site from | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
the centre. You add to that the permission that has been given | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
automatically on Brownfield sites where local authorities would have | :55:20. | :55:21. | |
the rights to understand it to dissociate infrastructure deals as | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
part of the planning permissions. You have got the major | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
infrastructure projects, housing can be approved with no local consent | :55:29. | :55:35. | |
whatsoever. The RTP I have described these measures were the increasing | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
powers do these measures as extraordinary. Extraordinary in | :55:42. | :55:46. | |
terms of their control. Depends on the housing revenue account, | :55:47. | :55:48. | |
controlled of total rents, control of rents of several high-income | :55:49. | :55:55. | |
families, individuals focusing local to sell off properties mean that the | :55:56. | :55:57. | |
housing revenue account, a stand-alone accounts is introduced | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
by the Secretary of State when he was the Minister a few years ago is | :56:02. | :56:05. | |
now in account which is very firmly in the Chancellor's pocket. | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
Finally, I will say many deputies beaker, two measures in these | :56:10. | :56:15. | |
proposals. Affordable homes of ?450,000, can anyone seriously | :56:16. | :56:22. | |
believe that? Or, a company with two members of the family working hard, | :56:23. | :56:28. | |
earning the living wage, describing having their income, their family | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
income described in this legislation as high. Hi family incomes, Madam | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
Deputy Speaker does of my things alone she'll call out of touch this | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
government is, and how irrelevant these measures are to the real | :56:42. | :56:44. | |
problems facing the majority of people in this country. Hear, hear! | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
But added the Speaker is a huge budget to follow my friends for | :56:50. | :56:53. | |
Richmond who I dearly hope will be the next mayor of London. Hear, | :56:54. | :56:59. | |
hear! My friend in parliament or neighbour, the Honorable member for | :57:00. | :57:08. | |
Oxbridge to seek reassurance on one central point. I support the | :57:09. | :57:10. | |
principle of this bill, it is designed to make it easier for | :57:11. | :57:14. | |
people to own their home, to build their home, and to get better | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
protection from rogue landlords. You will have my support, I do have a | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
concern which I would like the front bench to respond. That is around the | :57:24. | :57:27. | |
question of whether this bill will see an increase in the supply of | :57:28. | :57:32. | |
affordable homes in London across all tenant. That if the number one | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
political challenge we face in London as my Honorable friend has | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
said. I am in London MP, Ira present an area where it is almost | :57:42. | :57:44. | |
impossible for someone to rent a one-bedroom flat for less than ?1000 | :57:45. | :57:51. | |
a month, or by aid for less than ?250,000. One-bedroom flat. Despite | :57:52. | :57:57. | |
the best efforts, most of what we see being built in this area is what | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
the market can pay rather than what the community needs which is homes | :58:03. | :58:05. | |
young people can afford, and which key walkers can afford. It is to | :58:06. | :58:15. | |
increase the stock of affordable housing across all tenant, the | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
schools to the heart of the kind of London who want to see and hang onto | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
future generations, must be a city in which people of all ages and | :58:24. | :58:26. | |
incomes can live together in neighbourhoods that are not | :58:27. | :58:32. | |
segregated by wealth or crass or nationality. Derek, I am not to have | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
any time to give way as much as I love the Honorable member. By the | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
Secretary of State was very clear in saying, so that the governments of | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
all colours have failed the capital, none more so than 13 years of new | :58:47. | :58:54. | |
Labour. Hear, hear! The shadow minister was good enough to express | :58:55. | :58:59. | |
regrets, no more than under those 13 years and lost 400,000 units of | :59:00. | :59:03. | |
affordable housing. That is the whole we are having to climb out of | :59:04. | :59:06. | |
which the Mayor of London deserves in him for in terms of starting that | :59:07. | :59:15. | |
process. That is the question, with its content do not contribute to the | :59:16. | :59:18. | |
biggest political challenges which is in Crete the supply of affordable | :59:19. | :59:21. | |
homes. But as he grabbed not yet received a clear enough answer to | :59:22. | :59:25. | |
that question. There are considerable grounds for optimism. | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
The Secretary of State has up as many quite good today that he is | :59:30. | :59:32. | |
passionate about putting London at the front of the surge in new builds | :59:33. | :59:37. | |
that to see over the next five years, I believe him when he talked | :59:38. | :59:41. | |
about one-for-one replacement, I see huge potential in the deal that he | :59:42. | :59:46. | |
has so cleverly struck with housing associations. Let us push those | :59:47. | :59:50. | |
housing associations to be more ambitious, it is called right to | :59:51. | :59:54. | |
buy, for then it should be also silver build. They have the capacity | :59:55. | :59:59. | |
to will go my to do much better, I will not have any time to give way | :00:00. | :00:03. | |
to my friend. We should be doing them to do better which is | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
encouraging them to look at two for one, where I need some reassurance | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
is where the money will get recycled from the sale of high-value | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
console. At a great encouragement that this government has overseen an | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
escalation of your placement ratios that had fallen so shamefully bonded | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Labor, there still is a question of whether there is enough money to go | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
around given that most of these properties will be in London to find | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
what we want to do which is to fund the discounts on right to buy him a | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
to fund the Brownfield regeneration that we need to see, but also to | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
replace an stock on him ambitious level. My original position was the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
same as the prior Mayor of London which is to argue for a re-offensive | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
of these proceeds, I recognise that raised substantial questions for the | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
integrity of the validity of the policy of. What I want to see is a | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
change to the bill that the Honorable member for Richmond put | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
forward for which I supported wholeheartedly an amendment that | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
would make it clear that this bill will do what is needed to meet the | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
big political challenge in London and that increase the supply of | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
affordable homes and make the city the place that we continue to love | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
to live, and work in. Hear, hear! Speaker, it is a pleasure to follow | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
the Honorable gentleman who for most part had a very compelling speech. I | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
write to speak in an absolutely crucial debate for many Londoners, I | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
commend the speech from the front bench and from our Honorable friend | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
each year of the select committee. There is, Madam Deputy Speaker | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
housing prices in London. With the growing shortage of affordable homes | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
to buy and rent. Precious public services are struggling to attract | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
and retain workers. The city's business is site housing as their | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
single biggest concern. Many Londoners are in distress over | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
housing from the inability to make any progress over council housing, | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
to poor quality combination of. One of the biggest issues is the rising | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
cost of housing to rent, and to buy. For many Londoners, the prospect of | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
buying their own home is now simply a pipe dream. The average deposit to | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
buy a place, not the purchase price, the average deposit to buy a place | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
is now ?100,000. Three times the median salary of someone in inner | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
London, and four times the salary of someone in outer London. As a | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
result, more and more Londoners have no choice but to rent. I give way | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
but let me make the point about renting. Rents have now reached an | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
all-time high of ?1300 in London, and are rising year on year, rising | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
38% since 2010. Housing benefits spent and made essentially the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
taxpayer making up the blunders can afford to pay and what the market is | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
charging increase in London from a ?5.3 billion in 2010 to ?6.1 billion | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
now. Had to be the government welfare changes, the bedroom tax, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
cut the tax credits, lowering the welfare, and you've got a toxic | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
combination that is holding out many inner London buyers. Putting | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
enormous drain on the social fabric of London, and increasing the | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
pressure on housing, transport, and public services in many of London's | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
out there subs. I give way to my Honorable friend. Thank you for | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
giving way. Does he agree with the senior Tory that says that I write | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
to buy... The conservative leader of Westminster council will speak on | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
behalf of Londoners who care for the social fabric of our city and are | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
worried about the... I wish more on the other side. Hear, hear! With | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
this bill, the government has a real opportunity to start the process of | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
solving this crisis. The front it. Is that of solutions, the government | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
proposals will make the problems even worse. Turning first to the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
extension of right to buy to housing association tenants. Over recent | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
years, there has been no replacement of affordable homes sold under the | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
existing right to buy scheme. The Secretary of State could not dispute | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
his own department figures which are put to him that in London since | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
2012, only one in seven Consol homes sold had been replaced. So, how can | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
anyone believe there'll be any different this time. There is | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
nothing in the bill to guarantee money must be reinvested in the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
local area, replacing like for likes sold off homes, let us declare. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Housing associations are relaxed, setting off homes in inner London | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
and replacing them with units in cheaper parts of outer London or | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
even further afield the. This damages London's social, | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
accelerating the exodus of poor people out of our great city making | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
the crisis even worse. To make matters even worse, to make matters | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
even worse, the only way the government could fund this policy is | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
by forcing councils to set up the most expensive Holmes. In London, | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
this means losing substantial amounts of affordable family Holmes. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Meeting, London low and middle income families are going to be | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
squeezed out to fund the sell-out of housing association homes | :05:58. | :05:58. | |
nationwide. So mannered deputy speaker I will be fighting with | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
colleagues if they want to join me to retain the money from housing | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Association and Council property sales in London for Londoners. Hear, | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
hear! There also needs to be provisioned for like for life | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
replacements in the same areas as the properties are sold. Matter | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
Deputy Speaker, the government is planning a big boost in chew gum at | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
truly affordable homes, instead the government in the starter home | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
baskets, and London starter homes simply want help struggling | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
first-time buyers. Is being said, Doctor Holmes capped at a ?480, even | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
with Easley percent deposit which by the way is ?98,000 for your deposit, | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
you would need an income of ?77,000 to afford one. Madam Deputy Speaker, | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
it talks about aspiration, its aspiration for Hugh, who are we | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
talking about? This bill is a missed opportunity, it won't fix London | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
housing prices, it would make it worse. It will not deliver | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
affordable homes, that Londoners need to be buying or renting. It | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
will not, Londoners desperately need, it won't read in rent rises | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
for those in the private sector, want and the scandal of the | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
homelessness problem in London, Madam Deputy Speaker next mayor's | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
mayoral election is a referendum on the scab Ie capital's housing | :07:26. | :07:38. | |
prices. Mode of the duty Speaker, it is a pleasure to follow the right | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
honourable member in this debate, I disagree with the one of the last | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
things he said which was that this government is putting all its eggs | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
in the starter home baskets. With the respect Madam Deputy Speaker, | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
know it is not. The most exciting part of this bill, one of the day to | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
buy my Honorable friend the Member for Iceland, it is not mentioned at | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
all by any of the six speakers in this debate or the age including the | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
two fund. Instructed to about self build, the bill amends the self | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
build and custom house building at 2050 which is my private member 's | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
built which became not on the 26th of March. I have listened for | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
several years now it is housed to debates with people from different | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
sides have taken their parts and shouted statistics at each other. I | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
find it very frustrating. To be honest, the system has failed our | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
constituents for at least 30 to 40 years, if not longer. No one talks | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
about a national chair crisis, no one talks about a national shoe | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
service to solve the problem we have with our shoes, no one says we need | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
a help to sit campaign funded by government so we have enough | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
chairs, the reason is that the supply of chairs in the supply of | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
shoes rises to meet demand. The problem for 30 or 40 years if not | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
for longer is that supply of houses does not rise to meet demand, that | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
is the problem that we have to sold. If you look at the land area of this | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
country, one of it is taken up with houses the mighty add-on gardens, it | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
is probably slightly over 2%. The actual houses are 1.2%, that is to | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
say Madam Deputy Speaker, you could double in number of houses in this | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
country which no one is suggesting doing, you could double the number | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
of houses in this country and still 97.6 of the land area of this | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
country would be taken up by not houses. Of the first six speakers | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
from the back benches of hope for the present London constituents, one | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
may be forgiven for thinking this was a debate about London, of course | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
there are acute and special problems in London, no one denies that, of be | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
65 million people who live in the United Kingdom, 57 million of them | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
don't live in London, they also need to hear their voices heard in this | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
debate. Now, we have many excellent things in Norfolk, I give way. He is | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
very kind to give way, since he encouraged us were not in London to | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
offer all voices, can I point out just as he has his problems in his | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
parts of the country, so we Inglot us there have not a single new unit | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
of social housing built by Gloucester city homes during the | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
entire 13 years. That's a very disappointing to this date, it shows | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
the problem, you either have an assumption as apparently many people | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
opposite do that the housing has to be provided in a top-down sort of | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
way by large housing associations as often the chief executives on | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
bloated salaries and excessive the hundred thousand, or somehow the | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
volume house builders will make up the difference. There is a wide-eyed | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
astonishment among many people that volume house builders construct | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
housing when and only when it is profitable for them to do so. Will | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
be actually need is to break open the choice for people, break open | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
the supply. If you want to get a piece of land and build your own | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
house, as anyone who is a subscriber to home-builder will know, you all | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
should be Madam Deputy Speaker, everyone should be, the fact is you | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
can construct a very decent house indeed, that will cost nothing to | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
heat for in the order of a ?260,000. I give way. Is my friend agree | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
though that there are too few volume house builders, we need to have | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
significantly more competition? There are far too few polling house | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
builders, we actually need if we have proper joys, I don't blame | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
volume house builders are building what is profitable for doing so and | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
not otherwise, what they can do it is artificially fidgety supply of | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
land, and acquisitions possibilities for others by not just buying the | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
land, you don't even have to buy it, you just buy an option. If you pay a | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
farmer in my constituency for thousand pounds a year for ten | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
years, an option to buy the land you can keep it off the market. The Army | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
can get than a half times, he is very happy, he gets the option money | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
as well. The one thing that does not happen as a lady who e-mailed me | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
last year when my bill was starting to go through said I have spent five | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
years looking for a piece of land, I know further now that I was the day | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
I started, it seems you will never be in this country as it is in | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Germany in the least writeup pads down that path is to get a piece of | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
land and build your own house. This is a country where 1's with 20 | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
million more people than us and where one third of the land area is | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
covered by forest. If you buy a piece of land in Germany, you will | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
want to your local council, I am afraid I cannot give way, there is | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
no more time. If you want to buy a piece of land in Germany, you go to | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
your local council and you say I would like it piece of land piece, | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
they say would you make a big one or would you like a small one? The | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
small ones are sadly subsidized by the big ones which are slightly | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
distant portion of the more expensive, there is an equilibrium | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
between the supply of land and those who want to buy. Anyone can get a | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
piece of land. I mentioned earlier Madam Deputy Speaker that you can | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
construct a house for a house for 130 community land trust scheme, it | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
is quite possible to remove the equation the actual value of the | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
land. There are many landowners who would very happily come forward to | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
help in rural areas such as mine in Norfolk, if they thought that the | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
houses were going to be not for a volume house builder to build on | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
spec and then sell. The fact that they use the word spec is | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
extraordinary. I'm sitting next to somebody for a major house-builder | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
and say we do not talk about spec shoes, we do talk about spec chairs, | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
the very word spec as in speculative is pejorative. Why the you use it? | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Why to use it? Why aren't you since you provided one in places where | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
people have their lives, where they can see their children, where they | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
can see their children, would give them what do? What you can't expect? | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
And looked at me like I was mad. It seems to me that that we need a | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
revolution in how we do this, my secret plan, my simple plan to make | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
this happen is to put at the centre of this equation the customer. I | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
know it is old-fashioned, I noticed additional, it may even sound | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
simple, it works for shoes, it works for chairs, it works for most | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
things. What I find most exciting about this bill, there are many good | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
measures in that help promote supply. The register of Springfield | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
land, the reducing uncertainty in the planning process, the central | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
bank of compulsory purchases, the speeding up of neighbourhood | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
planning. Many of these things are welcome, the thing that is most | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
welcome however is the chat in chapter two to make it easier for a | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
person to get a piece of land and to build a house. I can affect | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
everyone, he can have huge benefits for social cohesion. Can have | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
benefits for skills, it can have benefits for the offending, it is | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
getting young black men in 20 years ago were writing, and it's really | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
building their own mistake in a community. Madam Deputy Speaker, we | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
need a revolution in this country, it is discovering that is going to | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
bring it about. Hear, hear! Madam Deputy Speaker, you think in the | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
summer by surprise, I have elected to follow the honourable gentleman | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
from South Norfolk, the housing as with so many other colleagues is the | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
biggest issue in my constituency. I would like to buy my remarks and | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
thus not part. And and I think I've been missing from the bill, and | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
adamant of concern. First, missing from the Bill. There is nothing in | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
the bill on the leasehold reform, the honourable minister friend has | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
been leading the campaign on this for some considerable time. The | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
partnership supplies a debriefing what says that there are key | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
elements from the bill, on the fact that the government, the commission | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
report proposing the replacement which forced sale of the big | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
termination has been that the government since 2006. The | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
government is aware that the delaying and stopping of the right | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
to manage an minded technical grounds. The basic right to | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
leasehold recognises the tenants Association has set a high level on | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
the disputes of the trivial procedures are far from informal or | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
inexpensive. Said in the point I want to raise which is raised by the | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
term and Dial chairman of the committee is the briefing on | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
electrical safety first. They say that the housing bill, the housing | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
bill does not include anything on protecting tenants and the private | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
rental sector caused by unchecked and faulty electrical installations. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Actresses you and the sector has been left behind, other important | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
years is as gas, carbon monoxide and smoke alarms. At a chairman of the | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
committee said, the government has missed the opportunity to come | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
forward with regulations to ensure that mandate 35-year electrical | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
safety checks as part of the housing bill. Board and family is the | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
question that I have been raising at the Minister of all register on the | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
transfers from counsel to the housing Association and the fact | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
that there is no reversal position the Macrovision. Did not guess to | :17:10. | :17:21. | |
stop transfer, the tenants... There should be an opportunity at some | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
point after five or ten years for tenants to be rebutted and to go | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
back to the console. The second part is on elements of consent and like | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
so many other colleagues, the question of right to buy and the | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
proficiencies in the arrangements laid down by the belt are huge | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
consent of. Have to say that at support Bickell principle of right | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
to buy, as he laid out in the briefings says the ultimate aim is | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
to be achieved within two years of sale, the default position is that | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
associations will achieve replacement revenge three years, | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
replaced there will be a national level and not at the local level, | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
the idea has been raised by many colleagues. Goes on to say that | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
local authorities required to manage the assets more efficiently with the | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
most expensive properties is sold off and replace. It says of the | :18:20. | :18:29. | |
high-value and, these are large family homes which when the gold, | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
families will not be able to afford them in east London. The Government | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
Association has argued that the extension of the right to buy should | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
not be funded by pursing consuls to sell off their homes. Another aspect | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
highlighted locally in the housing associations are the reports that | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
the arbiter changed the way they work, and reports of training | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
programmes, initiatives, anti-social behaviour, all subject to review and | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
cancellation of reduction due to cuts in funding. Some are even | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
changing the housing offer. For example, East homes housing, we have | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
had to review our housing offer in light with government changes, | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
particularly the year on year run can't which will result in a 14 | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
million annual income, taking the decision to concentrate our | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
resources on social housing for those as well as ownership which is | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
supported by the government and we cannot to support subsidized of the | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
ten years, those with the greatest need should be our parity. It seems | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
that only innocuous, it seems positive if you want to interpret it | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
that way. Transited into English that means that key workers and | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
carers I got to be evicted from their homes because they are no | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
longer able to use intermediate tenures. The government I am sure it | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
don't mean that this as their intention, people have been living | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
in the zone for tenures to be evicted is wrong. Like the Minister | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
tells us that is not the government intention, affordable homes for key | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
workers is part of the plan. Hear, hear! Thank you very much Madam | :20:06. | :20:14. | |
Deputy Speaker, my constituency is half comprised by the national Park | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
and the national Park of much about him and pressure is forced outside | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
of the Park with its high landscape protection rightly, and creates | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
great pressures in the communities that fall outside. It is | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
unsurprising that planning issues are the single biggest issue in my | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
constituency, and reflect the tension that we as policymakers have | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
to deal with now which is on the one hand, the national interest to build | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
more houses, the Secretary of State identified the fall in home | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
ownership, the lack of affordability of houses as being a serious | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
national problem, perhaps almost pressing national problems. On the | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
other hand, the need to protect the countryside and communities in which | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
it is also in the national interest to do. I agreed with a great deal on | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
my honourable friend the Member for... The difference between the | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
countryside and shoes is that the supply of countryside was the | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
liberty constrained. It was to prevent development, the challenge | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
for us is to find a way to increase supply while protecting the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
countryside insofar as possible. Actively to my honourable friend. | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
Are present in a row constituency, I have yet to meet anyone who does not | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
leave any house, even any house, even in a rural area. It is not the | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
problem that there is no relationship between the voice of | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
people in terms of what gets built, where it gets built, what it looks | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
like, Oracle gets the first chance of living there. If you want to | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
change I love that you change the conversation about development and | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
protection. I agreed my honourable friend about that, I think a lot of | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
legitimate reasons for being concerned about development, equally | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
there is silence group of voters, perhaps a silent majority who are | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
those who cannot get their foot on the property ladder, those who face | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
high rents, those for whom the dream of homeownership is a long way away. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
We need to ensure their interest is are presented also. There is perhaps | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
something of a policy a policy ambivalence against the heart of | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
government policymaking now. We started off Friday with the localism | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
bill, the theory was that we should devolve power to a local community. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
Will be a better way of the house-building. There is some | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
evidence that that policy approach works. But, more recently there have | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
been bills which seek to take more powers to the centre as a means of | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
driving through House buildings. I would argue that that approach will | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
not work anymore then it worked on during the previous government. That | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
policy ambivalence is perhaps affected in a split personality on | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
the parts of the government. Kindly Doctor Jekyll comes to the House and | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
says that regional strategies are to be scrapped and rightly so, but at | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
night the Treasury doors are unlocked and Mr Hyde emerges, Mr | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
Hyde uses the pending expected to drive up housing numbers that | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
interference by the inspector can cause delays in the system. Prevent | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
plants from being completed. Kindly Doctor Jekyll believes in | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
neighbourhood planning and wants to speed up, evil Mr Hyde is allowing a | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
system where speculative planning applications can be allowed against | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
the wishes of local communities. Kindly Doctor Jekyll remains | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
committed to a lead system, but Mr Hyde this bill is allowing the | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
Secretary of State to take powers to directly from a projector projects | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
and give position in principle in relation perhaps not just a | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
bronchial band but other sites as well. Something over which we need | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
clarity. I would suggest to ministers that there are four issues | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
that we need to address if we want to encourage public support for | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
house-building rather than see continued resistance. The first is | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
to keep faith in the localism. Neighborhood plans have by giving | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
people power and responsibility to determine what they do want rather | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
than what they don't want, have actually seen people in that thing | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
for more houses than they expected to do. Secondly, people have | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
legitimate concerns about the provision of infrastructure to | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
support housing, not just major infrastructure which is dealt with | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
under this bill, but local infrastructure also. People need to | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
be assured that there will be a adequate school places that GP | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
waiting list will not increase, there will not be excessive amounts | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
of traffic on their roads. Ferney, good design is I believe at the | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
heart of building public support for housing. In that respect I strongly | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
agree with my honourable friend, the Member for South Norfolk about the | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
value of the bill, that wrongly suggests that people are going to be | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
encouraged to build houses themselves, what we are talking | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
about was opened up the market to a broader range of supplies and | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
remembering that the national planning party framework which my | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
right honourable friend the Secretary of State presided over | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
exquisite he said in his foreword, my right honourable friend that | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
there were three dimensions to that framework. The social dimension, the | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
advent of Mac economic dimension and the environmental dimension code | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
must not lose sight of that has been an important factor that the | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
planning system tries to address. Family, I would argue that we need | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
to look up more fundamental barriers in our planning system, again I find | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
myself in agreement with my honourable friend about that. There | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
is a view question about whether we will ever be able to build at the | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
rate that in the Southeast that will be required if we are too lower | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
house prices and make housing more affordable. We face serious visual | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
and balances in this country when much of the demand for housing is | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
being focused on areas in the South. We do need, I think to look more | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
radically not just at the rebalancing of the economy that is | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
needed but at the whole operation of the planning system itself to ensure | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
that it does, now meet the needs of people and that housing | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker and it is a pleasure to follow the | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Honorable member and who made some good points about the flaws in this | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
bill, where I represent has 20,000 people each on I'll wait for a | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
house. Coming with herring accounts of homelessness and... My local | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
council is each playing their part in delivering new homes of social | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
rank, and I would love to be able to say to my constituents, I know you | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
think things are bad but the government is bringing in the new | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
law which will help to deliver more genuinely affordable homes, though | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
it will take time you will will get better. But I cannot tell them that | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
because the consequence of this bill is the definition of the Ford ball | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
home and London will be a home to buy it at ?450,000, there is nothing | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
for you in this bill if you are on a council waiting with list, sleeping | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
on your friends sofa or rating your children up in a one-bedroom flat | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
when you need three-bedroom. We cannot be meeting the housing | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
aspirations of one part of our community wells deliberately | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
ignoring the needs of another part of our community entirely. And that | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
is what this bill does, instead of providing for a mixed housing | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
economy, more homes at social or rent, and homes to buy, this bill | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
will result in much-needed Council homes being sold off to pay for | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
housing association tenants to exercise the right to buy. Most of | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
those in the most serious housing needs and doctors, teachers and | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
other public-sector workers will just get harder. Muck I it | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
astonishing that this bill defines a household comprising two adults | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
earning 20,000 pounds of old year, as high earners. All of these will | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
be required to pay market rent on the page to state Clause. As much as | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
durable as what they would be paying social attendance, search... | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
Certainly not affordable in London. To build more homes across a ride | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
range of different tenures,... Out of their homes by penalizing them | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
for getting a pay raise. In the private renters rented sector I | :28:46. | :28:54. | |
welcomed the measures to help tackle landlords... Jason is employed as a | :28:55. | :29:03. | |
landlord and she is a teacher, they are facing eviction from their home | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
because the landlord has put up their Rantoul a level they cannot | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
afford with no warning, and though they have been good tenets for 21 | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
years, there have been served a section 21 notice which he has no | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
reason to required them to move out. Checks on unreasonable mincing | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
increases, there will continue to live with the day-to-day insecurity. | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
I am very concerned indeed about the planning aspects of this bill, I am | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
proud to spend two years working as a town planner and what I love most | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
about profession was a vital role planning plays and brokering a space | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
in individual interest and community need. It allows communities to be | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
involved in planning and scrutinised detail on individual applications | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
and ensure good design and quality and good open spaces, health centres | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
and schools are able to support an expanding population, and good | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
planning... Wills delivering sustainable places for the | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
long-term. This lacks any vision at all for planning and has it as a | :30:14. | :30:21. | |
restraint to development, for a multitude of different measures. The | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
provision for Secretary of State calling planning positions, this | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
bill will take planning a -- power away from local communities. Local | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
authorities will be denied the... And negotiate for a community is | :30:40. | :30:47. | |
facilities on affordable housing. I support neighbourhood planning but | :30:48. | :30:50. | |
will be the point of a neighbourhood plan if that counsel has to give | :30:51. | :30:59. | |
principal consent. This centralisation of planning will be | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
profoundly difficult for many kind... Communities across the | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
country and lead to more not less Calais and the planning system as | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
local... Meeting our housing needs they should meet are planning to | :31:12. | :31:19. | |
its... The planning system should be where we hold collectively our | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
aspirations for our future and should be how we make sure those | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
aspirations are delivered, this bill as presently drafted will do the | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
opposite. It is a pleasure to follow the Honorable leader... Ladies. This | :31:35. | :31:45. | |
is a broad and substantial bill, and I would like however to preface my | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
remarks by strongly commending the excellent speech, real passion and | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
knowledge my Honorable friend for south of our book, he knows what he | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
is talking about. That is an important part of this bill, and | :32:00. | :32:06. | |
help for tenants and sector of topics I would like to add the | :32:07. | :32:10. | |
debate. The Secretary of State said that for a quarter of a century now | :32:11. | :32:13. | |
that our housing markets have been dysfunctional. Year after year we | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
have been producing roughly speaking, half the homes we need. | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
This persistent gap in between them and in supply, is actually the root | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
of most of the other housing issues that we debate, affordability, | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
standards, homelessness, the rising housing benefit bill, for me the | :32:33. | :32:36. | |
acid test of this bill and government policy as a whole rest on | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
whether or not it will deliver a sustained increase in the supply of | :32:41. | :32:46. | |
housing regardless of tenant. I welcome the proposals on starter | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
homes and custom house building, but let me turn to planning reform | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
briefly and offer one suggestion to ministers, if the planning system is | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
to work, we need to reverse the loss of experienced planning officers and | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
our local authorities. In some authorities, the system is grinding | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
to a whole because the lack of planning officers able to either | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
produce a local plan or to actually drive forward negotiations with | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
experienced developers. That I urge that Minister in his reply to this | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
debate to bring this planning profession and industry together to | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
say how he is going to do that and secure a joint agreement on how we | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
can strengthen planning departments and get the system moving. Second | :33:28. | :33:33. | |
issue on tenets, and let me turn specifically to houses with multiple | :33:34. | :33:35. | |
occupancy, the other measures are welcome, I welcome this focus on | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
HMOs, many members will know that these are often calmer to properties | :33:41. | :33:45. | |
run by the worst landlords and this is the subsector were all too often | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
criminality and him and trafficking lurks. That is why was strong | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
encouragement is to apply the proceeds of crime act provisions, so | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
that the worst of the legal HMOs are seized and the property is handed | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
over to the local housing housing authorities for legitimate homes for | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
families. I think that is the best signal we could send to did to deter | :34:08. | :34:16. | |
crooks. As the housing minister, I launched the build their brand fund | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
and I did so because I believed that we needed a more professional | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
long-term renting sector. We need to be building homes that I do the | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
housing stock, homes that are specifically designed to provide for | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
tenet's needs. Attracting longer-term institutional funding | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
will need longer tenancies. Investors want to have fully | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
occupied homes, they want satisfied customers. It is a model of renting | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
that is common in most advanced countries, particularly American | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
cities and here in London as my right honourable friend, the Member | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
for Oxbridge knows, the GLA has backed bills for rent with sub | :34:58. | :35:05. | |
supplementary planning guidance... We are seeing authorities in London, | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
and Labour authorities intelligently use this discounted rented model and | :35:11. | :35:17. | |
we encourage ministers to adopt the process and make sure it is adopted | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
nationally, I am not against by to win but I think it cannibalizes | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
existing housing stock and it has a scale now that is crowding out Homer | :35:29. | :35:35. | |
home ownership. Is that using a long-term professional renting | :35:36. | :35:37. | |
sector in which more homes are built to rent is the right Way ahead and I | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
think the ministers will continue to promote the sector. Out of respect | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
to those who have not the yet to speak I will drop my remarks to a | :35:47. | :35:56. | |
close. Madam Deputy Speaker, can I begin by with a spirit of generosity | :35:57. | :36:04. | |
and welcome the Bill for self build particularly. We have needed to | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
inject some energy into the ability to buy some land and build your own | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
home effectively, will we see the markets in Scandinavia, Australia | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
and the states and I welcome that. Of course in an area of London with | :36:19. | :36:22. | |
lots of houses and multiple occupations we heard from the | :36:23. | :36:25. | |
honourable gentleman that the banning orders and regulations of | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
some of our rogue landlords is necessary. Very sadly, I have to say | :36:30. | :36:36. | |
that this bill is of deep concern. At this critical juncture for | :36:37. | :36:41. | |
housing, and our country, it is frankly extraordinary that the | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
government should propose a bill that will effectively see the | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
decimation of social housing in this country. I believe, I genuinely | :36:50. | :36:56. | |
believe, that there are members on the opposite benches who also | :36:57. | :37:02. | |
believe and mixed communities. I love the idea of the London in which | :37:03. | :37:08. | |
my father arrived in the 1950s, where he was able to buy his own | :37:09. | :37:14. | |
home for ?6,000 in Tottenham by the May of 1960s, and where his sister | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
who arrived with him was able to get a council house on the Croydon block | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
of rod water farm. But also at that time we had a private rented sector, | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
a third, a third, a third. The vast majority of Londoners moving into a | :37:34. | :37:37. | |
hole this year are moving in in the private rented sector. Nothing in | :37:38. | :37:45. | |
this bill really to address the huge soaring rents, 40% over two years in | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
Richmond, 30% in Kingston, 20% in London Borough of hiring gay. All of | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
those people struggling with their bills now average 40% of their | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
salaries going to rent, and the government said nothing about that | :38:05. | :38:07. | |
group. If you believe in mixed communities, then please come to | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
this house and say something about social rents, social housing, | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
affordable housing. Instead we have a bill that will see the reduction | :38:16. | :38:24. | |
of that because from councils already cash strapped because this | :38:25. | :38:27. | |
bill is coming before the spending review in which we know there will | :38:28. | :38:30. | |
be more money taken from local authorities. The London that one | :38:31. | :38:38. | |
will see surely, when one has a starter homes scheme of course, is | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
starter homes scheme that will be exempt from 106, and all the | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
infrastructure, schools, hospitals, children's centres that have took | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
him around housing will not be there. Exempt from the community so | :38:51. | :39:00. | |
all the infrastructure gone, what type of communities are we | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
attempting to build here and London? It feels to that the Secretary of | :39:04. | :39:10. | |
State has set his base on building Paris, and great inner London at the | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
very wealthy, all of us in this chamber have assets, all of us | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
having homes, all of us who owns a home in London and bought ten or 15 | :39:21. | :39:25. | |
years ago well over ?1 million and those without assets and those | :39:26. | :39:31. | |
without assets are condemned to the private rented sector. White? | :39:32. | :39:34. | |
Because these new starter homes will not help them. If you are on a | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
living wage in London, you cannot afford a starter home on this game. | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
What is the point of talking about a? It is a waste of time, it is a | :39:45. | :39:51. | |
scheme for the middle-class children with 20% discount, and I might say | :39:52. | :39:57. | |
on running for I came to this view. I supported right to bike and it is | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
right to exercise that right, but the crisis here in London, forget | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
one for one, we have arrived at a place where we need a moratorium on | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
right to buy a not too extended any further, we need to address this | :40:12. | :40:16. | |
fundamental problems of taking property paid by taxpayers out of | :40:17. | :40:24. | |
the system, subsidized, up to ?100,000 discount. There is no other | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
area of government policy where conservatives would support taking | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
taxpayer's money and giving it to those who already have and taking | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
those without. This is a shame. If Zac Goldsmith becomes the next mayor | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
of London, alongside this bill, housing will be permanently ruined | :40:45. | :40:52. | |
for this country. Thank you very much Madam Deputy Speaker. The | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
opposition is making of this excellent bill, they are mistaken in | :40:59. | :41:02. | |
saying that this is a national problem, I would take you to some | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
parts of our country, some great cities where there is not a housing | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
crisis as it is an London. There are homes to sale, according to local | :41:12. | :41:14. | |
papers and I have no reason to doubt them for less than ?10,000, there | :41:15. | :41:20. | |
are huge expanses of Brownfield sites available in some urban areas | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
in city. Manchester, despite of all the excitement, it is still a third | :41:26. | :41:31. | |
of what it was in 1931. I make this point, to show that the crisis which | :41:32. | :41:39. | |
does affect us all is overwhelming the express in the Southeast and | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
above all in London where it is most acute as we have heard across the | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
chamber today. And the shortage is excruciating for those trying to | :41:50. | :41:52. | |
rent and buy. That severing has been well articulated in the last | :41:53. | :41:58. | |
intervention and particularly by my Honorable friend the Member for | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
Richmond Park, it is absolutely vital as everybody has said in this | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
debate today. That we continue with our exertions and building record | :42:09. | :42:14. | |
numbers of new homes in London and despite the frenzy we have just | :42:15. | :42:17. | |
heard from the party opposite, I would remind this house that it is | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
this that has been working flat out over the last eight years to make up | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
for the passive itty and inertia of the last Labour government. The | :42:28. | :42:34. | |
Locust years in which they failed to build enough affordable housing, and | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
I would remind them that if we were to have another Labour mayor which I | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
hope we will not, the last Labour mayor at the height of the... When | :42:45. | :42:52. | |
the public sector was flushed with cash and came absolutely no where | :42:53. | :42:55. | |
near our record of building affordable homes, we beat him by 25% | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
as my honourable friend are set. This year we are seeing more | :43:01. | :43:04. | |
affordable homes being completed than any year since records began, | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
we are compensated for that instinctive Haas David E -- | :43:09. | :43:17. | |
hostility. That is why I so warmly welcome the provisions in this bill, | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
it is absolutely right but I want to hear the support of right to buy, | :43:22. | :43:27. | |
and it is right that we give them the right to bite we are writing a | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
historic injustice and I think we deserve to hear from the front bench | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
whether they support the Labour back benches for supporting our policy of | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
extending that right to bite, because we heard passionate defenses | :43:41. | :43:47. | |
of it. It is right to sell off high... Members may not be aware | :43:48. | :43:56. | |
that in London, there is already a huge stock of social housing, 33% of | :43:57. | :44:04. | |
homes in the centre of the city are social homes of one type or another | :44:05. | :44:11. | |
come air to 70% -- 17% in Manhattan and Paris. There are Holmes and | :44:12. | :44:16. | |
high-value council homes that could be sold and both proceeds could be | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
used to build more low-cost homes in London and given what I have said | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
about the geographical location of this housing crisis, and given that | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
it is here in the capital out we have the demands, I am grateful from | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
what I am hearing from the government, I am grateful to the | :44:37. | :44:39. | |
members who have spoken earlier supporting this line of argument. I | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
think it would be the height of insanity to take those funds yielded | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
by those counsel homes sales and spend them outside of London on the | :44:49. | :44:51. | |
right to buy subsidy without ensuring that we get at the very | :44:52. | :45:01. | |
least a legally binding and funded commitment for a 2-1 replacement for | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
homes in London. I know that is what we are working on and widely | :45:07. | :45:10. | |
supported across those benches and London and it would help us build | :45:11. | :45:17. | |
those 50,000 homes a year. I welcome the changes to the planning rules in | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
this bill and continue to support the London land commission and we | :45:24. | :45:26. | |
are working flat out not to build more homes than anytime in the city | :45:27. | :45:32. | |
since 1930s, keeping pace with... Sam planning will help us, it will | :45:33. | :45:37. | |
give tens of thousands of people the joy and pride of ownership right | :45:38. | :45:51. | |
there... Almost all of whom already own their own property. Thank you | :45:52. | :46:03. | |
very much. Meanwhile... I think the smart thing that the government | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
could do with this bill is to split the proposals into, there are so | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
much that quite welcome the measures in the section that I could even be | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
strengthened and that way we could go back to the drawing board with | :46:18. | :46:24. | |
their housing proposals and with the Secretary of State to recover some | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
of the nice guy image that the my right honourable friend referred to. | :46:29. | :46:35. | |
That might be the way forward. By the government's on statistics,... | :46:36. | :46:45. | |
Although looking by now there are cities, that seems like an | :46:46. | :46:48. | |
underestimate to me. Many of us will have come across parents with young | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
children and are by centre is living either I and hostels or | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
inappropriate accommodations. We do have a crisis, Madam Deputy Speaker, | :47:01. | :47:06. | |
and it is not just in London. I know that the Chancellor is not very good | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
when it comes to recognising the impact of his policies on real | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
people, but I urge ministers to look at the shelter analyses in the | :47:17. | :47:22. | |
starter home lines, the family on the Chancellor is's national known | :47:23. | :47:29. | |
living wage to only will be able afford a starter home and about 2% | :47:30. | :47:36. | |
of local authorities and the entire country, it is not going to work. | :47:37. | :47:43. | |
The government's definition of starter homes stretches the | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
definition of affordable housing beyond breaking points. I do not | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
understand the up session with selling off council and housing | :47:55. | :47:57. | |
association properties while there is such a housing crisis. I do | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
understand the aspiration of tenets to be homeowners, but I wonder why | :48:04. | :48:08. | |
ministers think that aspiration does not extend to tenets in the private | :48:09. | :48:19. | |
rented sector. I know... I welcome part two of the bill. I commend the | :48:20. | :48:31. | |
binding order in Clause 13 on rogue landlords and repayment orders and I | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
welcome part five with a more astringent property has for | :48:38. | :48:42. | |
landlords and of course which offers a way forward for support action | :48:43. | :48:54. | |
resulting and rogue landlords getting off. It is not just | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
identifying rogue landlords but rogue developers, people who are | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
exploiting permitted development rules, dealing with my constituency | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
and elsewhere. Destroying the very family homes that we need and | :49:10. | :49:17. | |
creating ugly, unsaved often, in communities that don't want them or | :49:18. | :49:24. | |
need them. All of this is done for profits merely to extract exorbitant | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
rates and nonexistent repairs. If the bill was strengthened to protect | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
family homes, tackle unsafe extensions and breaches of permitted | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
development rules than the Minister would certainly have some prospect | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
of regaining his good guy reputation. The first part of the | :49:45. | :49:51. | |
bill is a mass and a mistake, the second part simply does not go far | :49:52. | :49:59. | |
not. Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker, I am keen to move the debate further | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
north end with the exception of the honourable gentleman I am | :50:05. | :50:09. | |
representing Birmingham metropolitan area, let's move it up to Leeds. The | :50:10. | :50:17. | |
exception of the amendment and the opposition where it says the bill | :50:18. | :50:20. | |
will not help most people struggling to buy their own home, the problem | :50:21. | :50:26. | |
we faced in Leeds is the ineptitude of the Labour council and getting on | :50:27. | :50:29. | |
and putting a planning policy and place and allowing the sums to be | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
built. Us there is a demand for housing and our area, but the | :50:36. | :50:38. | |
problem is that the council is not properly consulting with the | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
neighbourhood plans and the people going forward, right now there is a | :50:42. | :50:44. | |
six-week consultation period taking place and most of my constituents | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
have no idea what is going on. Have no idea how to feed him and when | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
they do the Labour counsellors are not interested in taking any notice | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
of what they have to say. That is leading to a failure of the policy | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
that gave them all the power, and put the power in the hands of local | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
people. To turn around and say that from a politically motivated point | :51:09. | :51:11. | |
of view, it is the fault of the government they want to build, that | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
is absolutely a lie. There is nothing more than a lie, yes the | :51:17. | :51:22. | |
government wants more houses to be built, and as my right honourable | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
friend said from the dispatch box, we have managed to get over a | :51:27. | :51:29. | |
thousand pages of planning to simplify the issue, but we the | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
government are not telling the council is to build their property, | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
we are trying to make it more helpful by bringing forward the | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
Brownfield register. I want to get to this point because the Council, | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
has said that they want to build 66,000 homes, this debate has been | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
focused around London, which has the huge demand. That is not the demand | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
in Leeds and the demand on the latest data showed 44,000, of which | :51:56. | :52:04. | |
could be built on Brownfield land. My Honorable friend have spent | :52:05. | :52:10. | |
hours, days, weeks, months are doing with the Council and inspectors | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
about the actual demands of the city, but because the Council is | :52:15. | :52:20. | |
putting forward the Hyatt number and are letting the developers to say | :52:21. | :52:23. | |
that we cannot build that on Brownfield and have to build it out | :52:24. | :52:28. | |
on green fields, because they have distributed bill land equally | :52:29. | :52:31. | |
amongst constituencies and leaving huge of Brownfield to be | :52:32. | :52:37. | |
underdeveloped and not touch. Said that base is ridiculous situation of | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
where both myself and my honourable friend have to take 12 and my | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
honourable friend have to take we do not have Brownfield lands. We do not | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
have it, we are likely if we have some windfall land in my honourable | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
friend has worked so hard on that because his constituency is affected | :52:57. | :52:59. | |
more than mine and disrespect, but we do not have it. What is clear is | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
that the companies to do is to take if you are building patches of 5000 | :53:04. | :53:24. | |
homes across a third the constituency, we stayed build them | :53:25. | :53:26. | |
in one place, do not give best dealt by a thousand cuts. Were doubling | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
the size of each one of the villages in the area with no infrastructure | :53:30. | :53:31. | |
improvement because 5000 homes just than one third of my constituency, | :53:32. | :53:34. | |
on average would mean roughly about five to 6000 children, where will | :53:35. | :53:36. | |
they go to school? Where's the sewage going to go, where is the | :53:37. | :53:39. | |
water going to go, how is leading to be dealt with and none of these | :53:40. | :53:42. | |
issues are being addressed. This is giving developers to get through all | :53:43. | :53:45. | |
of the loopholes and they we will build on that field and | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
unfortunately until the Mac until Leeds comes up with a policy which | :53:49. | :53:51. | |
is right and stops trying to blame the government and say we are at | :53:52. | :53:58. | |
Labour Party and lead to our given immense powers by this government | :53:59. | :54:01. | |
and we will use them responsibly, and we will do something properly, | :54:02. | :54:05. | |
we will not see the volume of house building that needs to take place to | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
assure that affordable houses are there. I give way to my Honorable | :54:10. | :54:11. | |
friend. Does he not agree with me that this | :54:12. | :54:19. | |
will enable us to see precisely how many sites are not going to be | :54:20. | :54:25. | |
regenerated? Is an absolute favour for those people live in those | :54:26. | :54:28. | |
communities will not just have to look over these derelict sites I | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
mandate the same time destroy our valued countryside? I am grateful to | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
my honourable friend. I think what he says there is a really powerful | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
point. These are peoples lives that the counsellor plan with. These are | :54:41. | :54:43. | |
people who have moved into communities who are working damn | :54:44. | :54:46. | |
hard to pay the mortgage and develop a life that they want to be in. They | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
do not know what is going to have to. Whether you say they want to be | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
looking out on fields, etc and they paid for that. Is, that is an | :54:56. | :54:59. | |
important argument. But it is also bad where are the children going to | :55:00. | :55:02. | |
go to school? Where is the world capacity to cope with these 400 | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
houses here, or 400 houses there with no improvement was back how can | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
you access doctors surgery? They have genuine concerns about how they | :55:12. | :55:14. | |
can actually function in their lives. This is where I want to urge | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
my right honourable friend today to be looking at situations in these | :55:21. | :55:23. | |
areas and saying, we are giving you the power, we are giving you a | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
register of Brownfield land. If you are not going to develop that we | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
want to know why. We want to know why you have decided that all this | :55:32. | :55:35. | |
derelict land and the centre of Leeds is going to be left to relate | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
and you are going to go and build on virgin land outside? Whether it be | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
Greenfield, I chose everybody, I do give way. I think my honourable | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
friend. He's making some powerful point. It is not the case that | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
actually developers will always go for the easy option which is | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
Greenfield land above Brownfield land? We have to do everything we | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
can to make sure that local councils are putting Brownfield sites first. | :56:04. | :56:06. | |
My honourable friend is absolutely right. I know he subs with many of | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
these issues in his constituency. Defect is that Labour Party in Leeds | :56:11. | :56:16. | |
are allowing developers to get away with that. Allowing them to go into | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
the most profitable landmasses there are and build in those places, often | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
in properties which really isn't going to help. I will not give way | :56:25. | :56:28. | |
again, I apologise to my honourable friend. Which really doesn't help | :56:29. | :56:31. | |
the situation when you're building houses were ?250,000, ?300,000. That | :56:32. | :56:38. | |
is not an affordable starter home in anybody's fuel. This is what is | :56:39. | :56:44. | |
fundamental, why are we allowing the councils to get away with this? Why | :56:45. | :56:49. | |
are we allowing them to say "we are going to leave that derelict and | :56:50. | :56:55. | |
build on this Greenfield" stop the if you challenged anyone of your | :56:56. | :56:58. | |
constituents, they cannot say to you whether it is green belt or | :56:59. | :57:01. | |
Greenfield. Most people do not know the difference. It is a planning | :57:02. | :57:07. | |
term. The fact is, it is a metal. But they were going into the city | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
centre and seat swathes of land which is not being developed, which | :57:12. | :57:16. | |
the Council are not even taking into consideration. Is time for the | :57:17. | :57:20. | |
Council to get on with it, engage with local people. Look at things | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
strategically. Actually say, there is a Brownfield register we are | :57:25. | :57:27. | |
going to use that land. And the number of houses we need, we will | :57:28. | :57:29. | |
get rather than an overinflated number. Hear, hear! | :57:30. | :57:42. | |
A pleasure to follow the honourable member. I would like to politely | :57:43. | :57:51. | |
differ with his colleague. As a member of Parliament for the | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
constituency in the North of England where the average house price is 12 | :57:55. | :57:57. | |
times the average income. I would stave this is clearly a national | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
problem. Of course it is buried in different ways am a but it is a | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
national emergency and housing. Millions of people suffer on a daily | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
basis from warehousing to the uncertainty of not knowing where | :58:10. | :58:12. | |
they will be from one month to be next, whether they can send their | :58:13. | :58:14. | |
children to be same school and term after the next. We have got soaring | :58:15. | :58:19. | |
house prices, several times higher than the median earner can't afford | :58:20. | :58:22. | |
across the country. A rental sector that sees many people spending over | :58:23. | :58:25. | |
half their income on rent. There is a need for a government to first | :58:26. | :58:28. | |
show that they understand this emergency and then sell the ambition | :58:29. | :58:35. | |
to make real changes that improve peoples lives. P Bewley have before | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
us is disappointing and unambitious at best. -- the bill. Brutal and | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
counterproductive at worst. It does not make an attempt to tackle the | :58:45. | :58:48. | |
housing prices or sell a signed of being written by anyone who it even | :58:49. | :58:51. | |
understands that crisis. Instead, it is an all-out assault on social and | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
affordable housing. At the very time when those homes are most needed. | :58:57. | :58:59. | |
The bill seems to be driven by a narrow go dogmatic belief that | :59:00. | :59:04. | |
homeownership is the only thing that matters when comes to housing and | :59:05. | :59:09. | |
demonstrates an absence of the grasp of real issues facing families and | :59:10. | :59:13. | |
housing needs in Britain. Will have long-term consequences, breaking up | :59:14. | :59:15. | |
communities pursuing all poems which will be both damaging and | :59:16. | :59:23. | |
irreversible. -- selling off homes. Certainly the issues are not tackled | :59:24. | :59:26. | |
in this bill. The bill forces councils to sell off however value | :59:27. | :59:30. | |
homes and makes no commitment to replace those sold off on the Right | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
to Buy. Tenants allowed developers off the hook from providing | :59:36. | :59:38. | |
affordable homes and instead direct ties starter homes, which are not | :59:39. | :59:42. | |
affordable in the first place and certainly won't be after the first | :59:43. | :59:47. | |
owner -- prioritise. While there are positive aspects, speeding up | :59:48. | :59:50. | |
planning processes, the bill is most an eclectic tumble of things that | :59:51. | :59:55. | |
missed the point before us. Access to housing is fundamental to our | :59:56. | :59:58. | |
liberties and opportunities and hopes for the future for every | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
person here. What we need is a positive vision for housing in this | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
country that meets the needs that do exist. And give security to be most | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
vulnerable. We need homes of all tenures, affordable ones that will | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
live up to their name. We need an ambitious plan which increases | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
home-building to present a thousand properties a year. And which is | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
forward thinking to set us up for the low carbon future for the | :00:22. | :00:31. | |
sustainability of our planet. ... Have ambitions to solve it. Is a | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
vision of new garden cities to the place where communities can grow and | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
thrive. To manage their housing stock effectively. Give them the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
ability to borrow what they can and build what they need. And | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
stimulating private sector investment and housing through the | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
creation of a housing investment bank. Supporting and sustaining | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
rural communities to ensure that your families can't afford to | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
continue living in the place they call home. Strengthen local | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
communities and indeed tackle the excessive second-home ownership | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
advantages communities and roar areas like the West Country and | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Cumbria. Is that this bill will cause the break-up of communities | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
happy at phones are sold off... They will be lost to local people. The | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
provisions of this bill will reduce the number of social and affordable | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
homes which in turn will lead to a rise in homelessness, adding to the | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
already huge waiting list, totalling 1.6 million people in this country. | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
With more people in the private rented sector because there are not | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
any affordable homes, there will be extra cost for housing benefit. The | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
unintended consequences are expensive. Written need a radical | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
ambitious housing policy which addresses the need answering this, | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
not his medals communities. This bill is worse than a wasted | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
opportunity. It will make the housing emergency worst. That is why | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
we oppose this bill tonight and will speak up for the millions for whom | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
this is not a political issue but a daily reality. Hear, hear! | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
I have had a brilliant speech of 20 minutes, which will probably benefit | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
from being condensed into four and a half. The honourable gentleman will | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
understand that I disagree with almost all he said. Master I was on | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
a manifesto that made a number of promises to those who wanted to own | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
their own homes. A will no longer be that dream because of what is in | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
this bill. That bill will start to make that dream a reality. I am | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
pleased with the concept of starter homes. It is essential of a time | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
when the prospect of homeownership stretches well into the 30s for so | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
many. And 37% of households and the 25, -- 34 age cohort live in private | :02:57. | :03:09. | |
accommodation. ... Therefore this is a central part of the bill. I | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
wholeheartedly welcome it. Much criticism has been made of it today | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
on two bases. The first is that in mind in London the cap is ?450,000 | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
puppy outside London, the cap is that is a cap. As the prime minister | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
said in his answer to be Leader of the Opposition, we want to see | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
starter homes built in London ?150,000 - ?200,000. If you look at | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
land that is being brought back into development, the charge is that land | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
is that a cost above development value. It is actually land that | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
would not otherwise be used to made is surplus and that is at best | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
questionable. Equally there is the proposition being put by the | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
opposition that this will cancel out the building of other properties, | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
particularly rental. I accept that 37% of affordable homes will be | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
through section 186, but the plan being proposed for starter homes is | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
serviced industrial. It is the sort of plan to which it would not | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
attract section 186 in the first place. So there is the incentive for | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
many developers to continue developing properties I'm a to | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
develop for rent through section 186, and bring on this surplus land | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
for starter homes. Madam Deputy Speaker, may I time briefly to some | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
aspects of the London bill. Where my honourable friend for Richmond Park | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
is elected to mayor next year... Hear, hear! | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
He will have a wholly different legacy from that my honourable | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
friend from Oxbridge inherited. The failure of housing was written large | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
in London. It is a tribute to my honourable friend that by the time | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
in his office, 100,000 more affordable homes would have been | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
built. It is also clear that I applaud the announcement of the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
London land commission in February. I am pleased it is already in | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
existence but before many years, the public sector has been far too slow | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
to bring excess surplus and nonoperational land forward. | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
Therefore, I absolutely completely value the bill's requirements for | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
local authorities to compile and maintain average to compile and | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
maintain average Joe Brownfield land would ask my honourable friend, the | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
Minister, to mend do not consider some ways to work with cities. The | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
mayor in London as a strategic role in housing. He coordinates that | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
citywide. Surely it should be right that that may or should have a | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
formal role to co-ordinate that requirements. Equally, I am a huge | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
supporter of the concept and reality of the London land commission. The | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
housing supply in London can certainly be debated by bringing | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
that excess land into development for residential use. I also asked | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
the Minister, consider two other small changes to be London land | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
commission, which this bill offers the opportunity to bring in the | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
right of first refusal for those being sold to be offered to a land | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
commission. It also brings in the opportunity to introduce the duty to | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
co-operate copy a duty of authorities to work with, the London | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
land commission or indeed the Manchester land commission when it | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
is established, to bring on that surplus land to develop houses and | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
bring forward those houses. This, far from a sum of charges being the | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
no home of your own bill. It is the chance to own your own bill. Hear, | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
hear! Many say that an Englishman home is | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
his castle. With this bill, many people in our country will will fill | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
that aspiration. Hear, hear! It is interesting that I follow my | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
colleagues, the MP for Wimbledon. I represent the best half... What we | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
know is that the first time buyer, who we all suggest we support is | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
being crowded out by many things. Not just the number of properties | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
being built, but also bye-bye to landlord and non-UK international | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
investment and our property market. The tracks need that to bring any | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
chance for first Time buyers, the government needs to reassert the | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
crucial moral and civic distinction between owning your family home and | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
using the housing market as an investment to further your financial | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
assets. In London, last year on international money but 28% of | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
central London properties. Much was illegally gained and we cannot find | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
the validity of it. But Brian property with international money -- | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
buying money, is not just something that happens and Central London. | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Just two years ago, a constituent e-mailed me to suggest that his | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
doctor was looking for a property to find 32 people trying to purchase it | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
on that morning. His daughter and her boyfriend were standing next to | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
a representative of a Chinese bank. At couple were no way in a position | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
to compete with that money. We have to tackle to things if we actually | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
want first-time buyers to get any opportunity and London and the | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
southeast. If we want more money to build more homes and everyone has | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
agreed that they do, why not abolish tax breaks on buy to let mortgages? | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Why is it right for somebody who was to be an landlord to get tax breaks, | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
but someone wanting to live in a home not to? I appreciate that the | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Chancellor recently announced reducing the amount of tax breaks to | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
landlords. I also saw from the telegraph at the weekend, some of | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
those landlords are now starting a backlash. Can I say to the Minister, | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
hold all farm and think about more. By getting rid of tax breaks on buy | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
to let, you could reduce ?6 billion, enough to build 100,000 new homes. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Why not look at international investment in the London property | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
market? Why not have a levy for those people who do not intend to | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
live in their property or even let them out, but keep them empty while | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
their value increases? That is a port in our current state. I also | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
asked the government to look at exciting developments like the YMCA | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
in my constituency, which the Minister attended the opening, where | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
prefabricated properties at 55% to the area's market rent great | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
standards and heating. Rate investment for social investors. | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
Guaranteed a return. Providing a good way to live at ABC Noble cost | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
and a return on those who wanted to invest -- babies in the book cost. | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
At have worked at the coal face of housing for most of my life, when I | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
had a proper job. I worked as a receptionist on the homeless persons | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
unit, as a housing advisor, I argued with landlords to get temporary | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
accommodation for homeless families. That I have to say, I have seen | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
nothing like I am seeing at the moment. The families who are | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
homeless when I worked were families with young children. The families I | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
see today are children at the top of their primary school, the start of | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
the secondary school, three and four children. And I say every week to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
half of the people who turned up, don't worry I'm a section 21 will | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
expire then you will go to court, then you will get evicted, then you | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
will tell to be on the register, it it will be fine and the Council | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
might provide you with temporary accommodation. I constituency in | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
southwest London, the families who become homeless get housed in Luton | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
on the Harrow, Wembley. Their parents plead for the right to be | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
able to continue their work. A plea for the right for their children to | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
actually get to school. We are storing up social problems that we | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
have never seen the like of what is happening at the moment. I plead | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
with the government to look at it with a fresh eye on behalf of all | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
those families and the future of those kids. Hear, hear! | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
Thank you. It is a pleasure to follow to South London. I think it | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
is important that the House sends a clear message out today that the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
housing crisis we face is not just to be seen to be prism of London, it | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
is a crisis that faces the whole of our country. Many people will be | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
listening to this debate today and applauding wholeheartedly the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
measures that the government are taking in this bill to show that | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
they get it. They understand the scale of the problem this country | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
faces and are doing something about it. Group Right to Buy, which will | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
benefit up to 13,000 families in my constituency -- through. Hundreds of | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
my constituents have already benefited from health to buy, the | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
self build project as well. Starter homes will give thousands more the | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
opportunity to have what we know so many people in our country want, | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
which is a home of their own. Madam Deputy Speaker, I will make three | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
brief points to add to this debate today. We have continued to build a | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
high volume of new homes throughout recession because we are a great | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
place to live. When other local authorities were not doing their | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
part, we kept it going. In the last ten years, nearly 9000 new homes | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
were built there. 75% of my constituents feel that perhaps | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
enough homes are already being built in our local area, however in our | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
emerging local plan as it currently stands, we are being asked to build | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
850 homes a year over the period of the plant. Amounting to a total of | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
more than 15,000 new homes of 22029. In comparison with some | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
neighbouring authorities who we respect him a, we have considerably | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
outperforms them when it comes to house-building. Delivering some 50 | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
new dwellings per thousand residence. Nationally, my | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
constituency has been one of the highest levels of house-building for | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
more than a decade. It has recently been ranked as the third fastest | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
growing town in the UK in the last ten years. Perhaps when the Minister | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
replies to the debate today, he can assure my residence that their views | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
are being listened to by the local planning inspector and the previous | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
house-building that is driving up the demand for the future can be | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
Harper Lee understood -- properly. My second point, is that all new | :14:14. | :14:21. | |
homes have to be the best. That we expect that those new homes, whether | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
they are starter or any other sort, will be to the best highest quality | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
standards. I applaud them minister for his drive in this area for | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
setting up the design advisory panel to make sure that their exemplary | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
designs, available for all to use. Began only get the best houses if we | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
have the best people to build them -- we can only. I applaud the | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
government for understanding and making sure that government | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
apprenticeships are top priority as we move forward. We also need to | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
make sure that we have a robust and transparent building inspection | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
regime to major that these homes are well built and fit for purpose. The | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
Minister and I have had many conversations about this copy he | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
knows my strength of feeling on the matter. He knows that also the all | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
party Parliamentary group on excellence in the build environment | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
are holding an inquiry into the policy of new house-building. And | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
will be with the able chairmanship of my honourable friend, be putting | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
our thoughts forward to him when we conclude. Madam Deputy Speaker... | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
But we have to insure happens is that we don't have any stopping and | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
building. That is a key issue. My honourable friend is right. Why | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
should we accept sloppy building when it comes to house-building? | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
When if we buy something like an mobile phone, we take a sloppily | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
made foam back to be shop and expect a full refund -- phone. The same | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
should be applied here. The second point that I would like to raise, | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
before I move onto that actually, what I would like to say is that I | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
plan to make sure that I bring forward an amendment to this bill to | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
address this important point. My amendment will address the status of | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
building control performance standards, which are guidelines | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
provided currently as best practice copy I believe they need to be | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
taking forward and a much more formalized manner. The final point | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
that I would like to raise as part of the debate today to allow others | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
to have their contribution to this important debate, is the issue of | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
Right to Buy in arms houses. I welcome the measure to extend Right | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
to Buy. I have already said more than 13,000 of my constituents could | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
benefit from this measure, it is an important measure that many of them | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
supported at the general election. That is why it is important that was | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
essential to our manifesto. It has been some concern to me that some of | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
the providers of these houses, about the possibilities of these measures | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
inadvertently drawing them into the situation where the residents might | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
require Right to Buy in a way which was incompatible with the charitable | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
status of arms houses. Grateful to my right honourable friend for | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
giving way. A trust which looks after arms houses in my constituency | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
expressed a similar concerns. As I understand, the Minister has already | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
confirmed that arms houses will be exempt from these proposals, not to | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
create a break-up of of it imported historic and heritage Legacy | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
housing. The issue particularly among because, I have been written | :17:31. | :17:46. | |
about this -- written to. I, like my honourable friend, understand that | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
Right to Buy proposes don't affect arms houses -- proposals copied but | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
these trust needed reassurance in this area. I hope that as part of | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
his remarks he will be able to put these minds to rest to make sure | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
that people see that there is a particular execution being put in | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
place for them. And Deputy Speaker, this government understand that | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
owning your home, I think it's simply part of the DNA of being | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
British. It is part of the British dream. This bill, I believe, will | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
help more people realise that dream. Hear, hear! | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
Honourable members who have set all of the debate patiently waiting to | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
speak, will be delighted to know that many of their colleagues, | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
several of their colleagues, don't have the patient's which they have | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
shelled shown -- Sean and have indicated to me that they now don't | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
wish to speak. I will therefore, most unusually, increase the time | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
limit for backbench speeches to six minutes. Honourable members can look | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
on this as a bonus for the patient. The first is Mr Tristan Hunt. The | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
age of austerity has ended. In so many ways. It is a great pleasure to | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
follow the honourable member, who at the end of her speech spoke about | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
owning a home as a British dream. Affect as a German immigrant, and | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
man called Herman, who first identified English culture with a | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
home. He wrote in 1904 "there is nothing as unique English | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
architecture as the development of the House. No nation is more | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
committed to its development because no nation has identified itself more | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
than what the House. Computer thought England the only advanced | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
country, and which most of the population still live in houses. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Social and economic changes that European civilization has undergone | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
in the past years. " He did not bank on the terrible record of the | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Coalition government. For under the last Labour government. Homeowning | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
rose by 1 million. Under the Tories made has fallen by 200,000. Add to | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
that, their rank failures on homeownership, private renting, | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
affordable homes and housing benefit. The profligacy of this | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
government is startling stopping with housing benefit now costing | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
over ?24 billion per year. So I think all sides of the House with | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
like to welcome today's bill as a way of kick-starting homeownership | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
and clearing up the Coalition mask. But instead, we have a doctrine | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
which will do little to solve the housing crisis. And exacerbate | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
community relations. Let me first start on the areas of agreement. I | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
welcome policies which extend the opportunity for people to own their | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
own homes. I welcome measures that restrict the operation of rogue | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
landlords and letting agents. I welcome the register of Brownfield | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
land and I agree with the member of the South Norfolk, I think because | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
his own self build a custom house-building I'm I have much to | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
recommend them. And will hopefully give a boost to industry, which is | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
too often losing market share to German competition. But I wish to | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
focus on the extension of Right to Buy housing Association tenants. The | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
Right to Buy was originally a Labour Party policy, debated and office and | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
enacted by market Bacher. -- Margaret Thatcher. ... It can be a | :21:41. | :21:50. | |
powerful tool for social mobility and aspiration. The truth is that | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
under conservative governments, it has always been mismanaged horribly. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Your placement of social homes never materialised. Between 2012 and 2015, | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
some 32,000 homes have been sold, but in their place only three and a | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
half social houses have been built. The government have stripped out | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
tens of thousands of homes with no obligation or money being used to | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
fund replacements or in the same area. That we have a plan to force | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
councils to sell their housing stock to fund the Right to Buy policy of | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
housing associations, a policy which both the national housing Federation | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
and the local Government Association condemn. The sums don't add up. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
Expecting an auction of expensive Hausa homes to compensate -- counsel | :22:39. | :22:51. | |
homes, funding and build two new placement homes is simply not | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
credible. Been there is the aggressive statism. The 32 new | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
powers handed to be Secretary of State, I thought we were entering an | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
era of localism and devolution. Instead we have the iron fist of the | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
Treasury, dictating to councils what they can and cannot do, demanding | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
upfront payments from councils on the expectation of receipts and | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
undermining the autonomy of housing associations. The issue I was to | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
touch upon finally has the potential impact on community relations copy | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
we live in an age of high migration. This government have promised to | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
bring immigration down to be tens of thousands, instead we have met | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
immigration of 200,000 a year. Government statistics show a | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
significant and increasing number of tendencies for social homes are | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
giving to people from outside the United Kingdom. The figure stands at | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
well over one in ten for housing Association homes. Most of us think | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
that properly managed migration is good for the country, but at the | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
time when public concern is at an all-time high, we cannot ignore the | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
sensitivities of this. The Minister of the dispatch box said that | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
foreign nationals would have to be here longer than three years and pay | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
tax for three years to qualify for this policy, but I don't see how | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
that will cope with EU law. Real concerns in my constituency that a | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
policy which entails selling off council housing, built for the | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
workers of their, to fund a discount and social housing for those who, | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
rightly or wrongly, are not seen as having made the same contribution to | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
the community system is not a recipe for the community or welfare system | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
is not a recipe for based EU referendum intensifying focus, the | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
government must also be sensitive to the social effects of its policies. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
As I said in the beginning of my speech, it took a German migrant to | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
explain to the English their love of home life. It would be a great shame | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
if this policy allowed our proud history of cultural exchange and | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
respect to be so unnecessarily undermined on the altar of ideology. | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
Since becoming an MP, the most common issues raised by constituents | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
have been about housing and planning. Many of my constituents | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
are concerned about being not able to buy their first property but like | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
me they are greatly encouraged by the Help to Buy scheme which has | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
helped many families to find a home. Also the government's commitment to | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
provide starter homes and if it says on this bill will place on planning | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
authorities to promote their supply. Having said that, more often | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
my constituents highlight the problems associated with planning | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
such as the increasing pressure on local services. Amenities and local | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
transports infrastructure. As the demand for housing increases, we | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
will see and respond to the challenges that additional housing | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
rings, particularly the challenge faced by our transport structure. My | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
constituency is part of the commuter belt for Manchester and a place | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
where people further out in Lancashire can use the local rail at | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
the Mac railway stations for park and ride. This all adds pressure to | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
the Mac railway stations for park and ride. This all adds pressure to | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
local road and rail is designed and built. Investments and local | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
infrastructure, especially with the electrification of the Manchester to | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
Preston mine, is welcome, and we all look forward to seeing the increase | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
capacity this upgrade will bring. But increased demand for real brings | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
its own problems. Particularly around Daisy Hill and islands in | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
railway stations, they are increasingly well used by commanders | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
and there is everyday of her and his problem of parking around the | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
stations, not just the local car parks but all but nearby roads are | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
filled with commuter parting which is did an inconvenience to local | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
residents. The proposals for the 85225 bypass were counseled much to | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
the dismay of local residents. The new houses, but not the new and the | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
structure to go with them, transport infrastructure must be introduced in | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
tandem with development. Another example of missing transport | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
infrastructure is the junction seven on the and 61, the locomotive is to | :27:47. | :27:55. | |
be redeveloped with 1700 new houses and my constituents are concerned | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
that this will put even more pressure on the road infrastructure. | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
So we need this vital link on our local motorway. The works in my | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
constituency are a prime example of if concerns will be listened to and | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
on the whole local residents support its development and it is in line | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
with government policy. Many of my constituents have contacted me that | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
despite this, they have little confidence that concerns of health | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
services, recreation, education, transport and decontamination of | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
industrial land will be dealt with, adequately dealt with by the local | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
council. Madam Deputy Speaker, I strongly welcome Clause 103 of this | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
bill requiring local planning authorities to compile a register of | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
land. I believe that there should be a register of sites suitable or | :28:51. | :28:57. | |
unsuitable for use. Unsuitable for development to speed up housing, | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
while at the same time protecting our green spaces, this information | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
will be useful for local action groups who may want to use the | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
information to campaign on housing developments suggested for the local | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
area. Like many, I was disappointed on plans to build on the farm, | :29:17. | :29:26. | |
without using the Brownfield spaces available. I am pleased this bill | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
seeks to improve that figure, it is vital that local planning | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
authorities make these plans to decide how best to meet the needs of | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
local housing and publish them. So local people are not excluded from | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
the process. A plan that system is crucial to creating sustainable | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
development in local communities and the local community must continue to | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
have a estate in decisions that affect them and their families. | :29:55. | :30:02. | |
It is a birthday treat for me to speak in this debate and I also get | :30:03. | :30:11. | |
an extra minute. As we get older, we have a tendency to look back on our | :30:12. | :30:18. | |
childhood. I will do that. 33 years ago my mum and I were homeless. She | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
applied for the local council in the West Midlands as a single parent | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
with a 5 -year-old child. After a couple of weeks of staying with | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
friends we were granted a council flat and I will never forget the | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
security and warmth of her new home. My mum's really that we will no | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
longer homeless. Password three decades, if we were in the same | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
situation today, we would be put in a hostile, pet and breakfast the | :30:48. | :30:54. | |
commendation so call or a private rented sector. Many families are in | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
that situation, they are often uprooted from communities, support | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
networks and school, miles away from families and friends and according | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
to figures released by shelter, only today, only 100,000 children will be | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
in temporary accommodation this Christmas. In the early 1980s, | :31:15. | :31:21. | |
council properties were not in short supply. But now, across the country | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
1.4 million families are on the waiting list. Councils often do not | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
have the properties, or others on the waiting list, you are waiting | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
for years. I do give way. I am grateful to her for her story | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
because the social costs of these policies are often not aired, and I | :31:43. | :31:49. | |
also grew up in a council flat and it was safe and secured and Sable | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
and it enabled my sister and I to thrive and strive, and it is a real | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
crime of the government's policy that it would denies them any of our | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
children the very opportunities that are counsel properties gave us. | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
Absolutely and the research shows that if a child is shunted from | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
school to school, area to area, they are more likely not to fulfil their | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
potential at school and to do badly later in life and it is precisely | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
these children who are being forced around the country that are in that | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
situation because we have this acute shortage of social housing. So why | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
is it that we have the shortage? There is a simple answer, a failure | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
to replace homes sold through right to buy and that failure to build | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
social housing. I am not ideologically opposed to write to | :32:44. | :32:51. | |
buy, I am not anti-aspiration and I am not against homeownership. I am | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
ideologically opposed to Tory government running down the number | :32:56. | :33:01. | |
of Council home. That is the thing that this bill and ever is to do. | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
Since the introduction of right to die, we lost over 1.5 council homes | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
and that takes into account some of those that have been replaced upbeat | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
no government has found a way to fund the discount and secure the | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
building of new homes to replace homes sold. Worse still, the Tory | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
governments of the 1980s and 90s let our council houses fall into rack | :33:25. | :33:32. | |
and ruin, many had kitchens, leaking windows and moldy bathroom. I am | :33:33. | :33:37. | |
proud of the homes programme which transformed 1.3 million homes and | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
the lives of the families and the sounds, at our time and office we | :33:43. | :33:48. | |
built affordable home. Our government also failed to replace | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
homes sold through right to buy. In the last Parliament the Tories spoke | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
of reinvigorating the right to buy. But the real agenda was and I'm | :33:58. | :34:02. | |
afraid continues to be too run down the stock of social housing. They | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
introduce tax payer funding discounts, they've promised 1-1 | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
replacement but failed to deliver on that promise. While the lucky few | :34:14. | :34:19. | |
get a bigger discount, the social housing stock declines and the | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
families languish on waiting lists and the taxpayer is left to pick up | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
the bill with the housing benefit bill going through the roof. This | :34:29. | :34:35. | |
bill is yet another ideologically attack on social housing and | :34:36. | :34:41. | |
improvement... Shows provisions for legislate for housing associations | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
to sell homes and remove the requirement of developers to build a | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
affordable home. Let's take the force to settle, in some inner-city | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
areas this bill, that has been no doubt about it, it spells disaster | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
for social housing and is also a slap in the face for localism. The | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
government calls the sounds expensive, but these are not | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
luxurious home. Date our homes in high demand area. Selling them will | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
mean that there is no social mixing and other inner cities. And more | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
homeless families will be forced to move miles away from their | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
community. This ideological attack on social housing was actually | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
rushed out during the final weeks of the election campaign and I know | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
this well because I was the shadow housing minister at the time and in | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
a few weeks of this Parliament asked many questions about how they wanted | :35:40. | :35:46. | |
to fund this policy. I table the question about the estimates they | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
had about the value of these counsel homes that they were going to force | :35:50. | :35:53. | |
councils to sell in the number of the homes that would become baking | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
each year and the housing minister had no clue, frankly. He admitted | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
that he had did not know. The truth is the government does not have a | :36:02. | :36:10. | |
proper plan to replace these homes. This government is removing the | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
requirement for developers to build affordable homes, of course we need | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
homes for first-time buyers but this... And this will lead to even | :36:20. | :36:29. | |
fewer badly needed affordable home. Madam Deputy Speaker successful | :36:30. | :36:30. | |
governments have failed to get enough homes built to meet demands | :36:31. | :36:37. | |
and this government says they are a party of home ownership, but | :36:38. | :36:40. | |
successive governments have failed to replace homes sold through right | :36:41. | :36:45. | |
to buy, I support people's desire to have a security of their own home | :36:46. | :36:51. | |
away Mustard five people will not always be able to afford to buy. I | :36:52. | :37:01. | |
would wager that they will fail to do so in this next five years, there | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
is nothing inspirational about running down social housings of | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
families who need it most failed to rely on it like my mum and I did | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
three decades ago and this ideological attack on social housing | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
is the real agenda behind this bill and this government and that is why | :37:19. | :37:27. | |
I will be voting against it tonight. It is a pleasure to follow the | :37:28. | :37:34. | |
Honorable member and to measure many happy returns. I have to say that at | :37:35. | :37:39. | |
my age I had longer to look back upon my childhood then perhaps she | :37:40. | :37:44. | |
has, I hope so. It's who do remember looking back to my childhood was | :37:45. | :37:50. | |
growing up in a modest home and ate ordinary London suburb and being | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
bought by the hard work of my Labour voting shop steward, dock worker | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
grandfather. That was about aspiration and there was no | :38:00. | :38:07. | |
ideologically about that. I will not good way, I will give way and him | :38:08. | :38:14. | |
moment. I acknowledge that the balance at which the Honorable | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
member and I will not take lectures from the more ideological of her | :38:21. | :38:23. | |
colleagues of the importance of aspiration and the value. | :38:24. | :38:32. | |
Remembering my childhood that many members living on the counsel | :38:33. | :38:36. | |
properties were transformed by the right to buy when it was introduced | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
by Margaret Bacher. -- Margaret Thatcher. And aspiration for ever to | :38:45. | :38:52. | |
be dependent and renting, that is not the aspiration of the majority | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
of the British people. She is quite right that we all need to build more | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
homes, governments of both sides have failed in that regard and I | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
recognise that. The reality and the history goes like this, home | :39:04. | :39:10. | |
ownership peaked at 71% in 2003 under the Labour government but at a | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
time when the Labour government was largely following the policies of my | :39:14. | :39:21. | |
right honourable friend. After 2003 as the Labour Party moved to the | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
left and economic credibility lost home ownership declined steadily and | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
we in the Coalition inherited the mess they left behind us and had | :39:31. | :39:37. | |
further problems on the market. That is the true history of the matter. | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
This bill is welcome there for boosting much-needed housings or | :39:42. | :39:50. | |
supply. In terms of the specific parts of the bill, my honourable | :39:51. | :39:57. | |
friends and members have all referred to the particular issue of | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
the London housing market and I have endorsed everything to have said and | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
I support the amendment that they will be bringing forward, London | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
housing market is a complex one. Is it is much more than anywhere else | :40:12. | :40:13. | |
in the country. We do have to have in mind the | :40:14. | :40:24. | |
particular pressures on the London market because it is very much | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
welcome placement cause that there are in the rest of the country and I | :40:29. | :40:31. | |
get the sense that ministers understand that and that my friends | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
will look forward to working with them in achieving an outcome that | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
increases the total supply in London and what we call affordable housing | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
and that is sometimes a proxy for social rent which has its place but | :40:46. | :40:49. | |
also need to look for what is sometimes termed intermediate terms | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
of tenure which has that middle of London which are in an employment | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
and working hard but will never qualify for social housing. So | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
getting a mixed rate is absolutely critical. The planning changes are | :41:05. | :41:14. | |
welcome and I welcome other matters increasing transparency that is | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
available by making basic financial information about planning | :41:20. | :41:22. | |
applications available. That follows on for the work that my right | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
honourable friend the Secretary of State government to refine and | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
rationalize their rules on predetermination so we can have a | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
sense of the debate about the pros and cons available to Dick | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
communities and representatives when they make decisions and that is to | :41:40. | :41:46. | |
be welcomed. I would like to turn to the compulsory aspects of the bill, | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
but it is very important. Issues I would like to race there, one is I | :41:51. | :41:57. | |
welcome the proposals to make it easier... I hope the government will | :41:58. | :42:00. | |
look again at the issue on the rate to be paid, I appreciate that | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
they're looking at perhaps 1-2% at above business loses its land for | :42:08. | :42:10. | |
compulsory purchase, it is going to have to reinvest in its business | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
again. And that means it has to go back to the bank for a loan and a | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
level of compensation were closely aligned with the promotional rate of | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
bank loans would be more applicable and I hope we can consider that. The | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
other is the infrastructure projects, I understand the point | :42:31. | :42:37. | |
that it may be useful to have housing ancillary to a housing | :42:38. | :42:39. | |
project and a consultation project works about accommodation. Upgrades | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
this issue that it would be perverse if as a result of the Tampa | :42:46. | :42:51. | |
structure under the current rules land is compulsory of a wired ad use | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
value but then it is able to build houses and sell land at the housing | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
value and that the composer Lee acquired original landowner loses | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
Albert land without any element of the uplift from a housing | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
development echoes on. That seems unfair and I know my honourable and | :43:13. | :43:15. | |
right honourable friends on the Treasury bench will think about | :43:16. | :43:21. | |
that. I think this is a good bill and I have no hesitation in | :43:22. | :43:24. | |
supporting it in the lobbies tonight and a commended the House. I have a | :43:25. | :43:32. | |
number of concerns about the proposals laid out in this bill, and | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
mainly to do with the impact on rural communities such as the one I | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
represent. Some of this may well be unintended consequences. I will ask | :43:44. | :43:46. | |
the Minister to look carefully at some of these issues. They aren't | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
problems to the lack of detail in the bill and a concern about the | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
lack of consultation and the implications of some good changes | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
that may come about topics I would like to agree with my friend on her | :44:02. | :44:09. | |
comments on the right to buy because I 2am principal support right to | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
buy. But it is really important that you bring right to buy into it and | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
it has a positive impact on the housing market instead of a negative | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
impact and I think there is a danger that in this bill. The voluntary | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
right to buy agreement on the national housing Federation and the | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
government has also removed from her elementary scrutiny the press sites | :44:32. | :44:34. | |
terms of the agreement, and that leads it to the Minister to defined | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
wills also removing the affects of consultation with other affected | :44:41. | :44:42. | |
parties and I am concerned about that. Housing associations of cores | :44:43. | :44:49. | |
have been told that they will receive full compensation through a | :44:50. | :44:52. | |
grant to make up the difference of any financial loss from right to | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
buy. But it is also not clear whether that will be any conditions | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
attached to this grand or how free housing associations can be to spend | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
a grand and the way they best bank meets the local needs. Must of my | :45:06. | :45:12. | |
consistency is rural so I am interested in that, and includes | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
part of a national park and a particular concern of mine that the | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
proposals in this bill do not take into account the particular | :45:23. | :45:26. | |
challenges of delivering and retaining a next balance of tenants | :45:27. | :45:36. | |
and rural areas. Ensuring adequate provision of social housing and | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
affordable housing is critical, if local people are able to stay in the | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
communities where the families live or where many have lived for | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
generations. The cost of housing inside the national park is far | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
higher than outside of it. Local people also strove girls to compete | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
with verges in power of people from wealthier areas, looking to buy | :45:59. | :46:02. | |
holiday and secondary home. The national park has recently been | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
extended which is only can a compound this situation. The gap | :46:06. | :46:15. | |
between earnings and house prices in rural areas, the average ratio I | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
understand is 1-8 and many started as we discussed will simply not be | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
affordable to people who actually need them and a local community. | :46:25. | :46:33. | |
This is not just my view, this is the country land owners Association, | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
they also have concerns like this and they urge that it is vital for | :46:38. | :46:40. | |
the government does not require councils to impose and... It will | :46:41. | :46:52. | |
not sustain rural communities. For me it is problematic the reforms in | :46:53. | :46:59. | |
this bill focus on starter homes at the expense of delivering affordable | :47:00. | :47:02. | |
social housing for rent. Because this will have a negative impact on | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
the provision of affordable social homes in rural areas, I could also | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
have the unintended consequence of wiping out affordable housing in | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
areas like national parks. It is critical that any planning | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
obligations provide homes that respond to action local housing | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
needs, for example in my constituency, one of the areas that | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
have the biggest problem is elderly people's bungalows and that is | :47:32. | :47:34. | |
compounded by the bedroom tax because they... There is nowhere for | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
to go for elderly people living in family home. When you look at | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
replacing houses, the replacement should mean replacing the home that | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
has been sold with the similar property in the same community at a | :47:51. | :47:57. | |
similar rent. The bill needs to recognise the planning difficulties | :47:58. | :48:00. | |
of building new properties within a national parks. A can take a long | :48:01. | :48:07. | |
time to identify the land, and get to a planning agreement to build | :48:08. | :48:10. | |
within national Park authorities because it is much more complex. | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
Then what happens is because it is easier to build outside of the | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
national park, people do not apply to build within it. If we are not | :48:21. | :48:27. | |
careful as I said before, this affordable housing within these | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
communities and many of our villages will disappear and those communities | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
will change forever. And my constituency is, the housing | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
associations are delivering social housing in a rural community. And | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
they need the support and security to be able to do so. I also asked | :48:46. | :48:52. | |
the Minister carefully considers the impact of these proposals on our | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
local communities and insurers, particularly following last Friday's | :48:57. | :49:04. | |
position of statistics to reclassify, that housing | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
associations have a secure future as independent, third sector bodies, | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
with a clear role to do as much as they can to use their assets and | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
borrowing capabilities to deliver this affordable housing that we need | :49:18. | :49:25. | |
and deliver it where we need it. Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
like to thank the Minister for listening to those areas that want | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
to encourage entrepreneurship and business, Kensington and other areas | :49:37. | :49:45. | |
to continue their exemption from converting commercial premises to | :49:46. | :49:54. | |
residential. It recognises mixing meanies are vital to promoting | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
employment in industry and this is particularly important in North | :49:59. | :50:01. | |
Kensington where we have a number of business hubs and those in the | :50:02. | :50:08. | |
creative arts and business sectors. So, Madam Deputy Speaker, while | :50:09. | :50:14. | |
welcoming the aspirational policies in this bill and recognising the | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
value and popularity in homeownership I believe it is | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
important for us to offer housing crisis at different levels. I have | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
been meeting with all the housing associations and my colleagues in | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
the borough to discuss this issue in greater depth. As others have | :50:35. | :50:44. | |
eloquently argued this afternoon, including my colleagues from | :50:45. | :50:47. | |
Oxbridge and Richmond Park, there are unique features to central | :50:48. | :50:55. | |
London, particularly high areas like Kensington that do require special | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
considerations. I would like to touch on the right to buy proposals | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
which although aspirational, will require local council to fund the | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
discount and received by the purchaser. This forces the council | :51:11. | :51:17. | |
to sell off high value, properties were voids, rather than offer | :51:18. | :51:24. | |
temporary accommodation and housing that they want and that is further | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
decreasing the stock. Housing people in temporary accommodation is | :51:30. | :51:34. | |
expensive and often unsatisfactory and when a void becomes available | :51:35. | :51:37. | |
the local council must be able to use this property, via the housing | :51:38. | :51:46. | |
associations. My request to the Minister is to continue that | :51:47. | :51:53. | |
outliers like Kensington and other central London area so when setting | :51:54. | :51:56. | |
the levels he appreciates that these should be related to local house | :51:57. | :52:03. | |
prices, most house prices and Kensington exceed ?1 million and for | :52:04. | :52:09. | |
the Council to replace any sold stock would be extremely expensive. | :52:10. | :52:15. | |
The problem of high asset values is not unique to Kensington and | :52:16. | :52:18. | |
therefore I support other colleagues who spoke today and asking the | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
Minister dues consider keeping money raised by London sales in London to | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
help fund London's housing provision where it is most needed. I am hoping | :52:30. | :52:37. | |
the Minister will give the thought of both local and values and other | :52:38. | :52:43. | |
possible exemption. Regeneration schemes, supported housing, | :52:44. | :52:49. | |
sheltered care, housing specifically designed for the disabled. Though I | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
support this initiative and want to help people into home ownership, it | :52:55. | :53:01. | |
should not be at the expense of the provision of social housing for our | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
most grown or a bull. I would like to briefly touch... And those on | :53:06. | :53:13. | |
good or incomes should be able to pay a proper written to the money in | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
the system to help others, however I am concerned of setting the level of | :53:19. | :53:22. | |
40,000 that there may be a disincentive to work, particularly | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
if you'd consider a couple or young family, perhaps each earning 20,000 | :53:27. | :53:34. | |
a year, starting out on their careers, for example to newly | :53:35. | :53:39. | |
qualified teachers. And they would be expected to fund up to 80% of the | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
market rate and Kensington and Chelsea. However they would find | :53:46. | :53:50. | |
themselves penalised, so I would ask the Minister to look at it so this | :53:51. | :53:57. | |
bill does not negatively impact those we wish to assess. Turning | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
briefly to starter home of proposals, we become used to section | :54:02. | :54:15. | |
106 arrangements. While starter home divisions will be financially | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
attractive to developers, the homes are likely to be above the price | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
threshold and needed help those starting on the housing ladder and | :54:26. | :54:30. | |
an appointment has been made for my colleagues this evening. I would | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
urge the Minister to examine the starter homes initiative because | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
once these have been popular outside London we will want the mayor, and | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
London boroughs to have a range of different models to encourage shared | :54:45. | :54:49. | |
ownership including first apps and other provisions. I would ask the | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
Minister to evolve this to local councils for them to chose the most | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
appropriate makes of affordable, rented and other models of shared | :54:59. | :55:04. | |
ownership. I welcome the aspirations in this bill to increase home | :55:05. | :55:08. | |
ownership but would ask the Minister to consider the local needs, | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
particularly of those and Mike and says to constituency of Kensington. | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
I am pleased to follow the right honourable member and I enjoyed her | :55:20. | :55:26. | |
contribution. I too agreed with her. Many of my constituents, | :55:27. | :55:34. | |
particularly young people, would love the opportunity of owning their | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
own home. What this bill fundamentally misses, as to me is | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
just another example of out out of touch this government is, is it is | :55:44. | :55:49. | |
not just of homeownership. It is of getting a home, any home, a space | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
that they can call their own that enables them to live, work and raise | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
a family. One of my concerns with this bill is that the current plans | :56:02. | :56:04. | |
to deliver starter homes will be at the expense of affordable and shared | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
ownership properties. That are vital in providing housing needs in my | :56:11. | :56:16. | |
constituency. Has been illustrated that in many areas, including mine, | :56:17. | :56:19. | |
starter homes will not be affordable to low and middle income households. | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
My constituency, like many across the North of England, has a low-wage | :56:25. | :56:32. | |
economy. Gross average pay is ?413 per week. Which is even lower than | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
the Northwest average of 408 pounds. Many members in his house will share | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
my experience of the increasingly desperate situation based by my | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
constituents in trying to secure a affordable housing stock because the | :56:49. | :56:51. | |
stitch was like there, who work hard bringing up their young children and | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
are just managing to keep their head above the water. A deposit for a | :56:57. | :57:00. | |
home ownership is just a pipe dream for constituents like Claire. Every | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
surplus Penny is used to make ends meet, pay the rent, bills and put | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
food on the table. Claire is just one of many thousands that are on | :57:13. | :57:15. | |
the housing need to register in my constituency. She currently resides | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
in poorly maintained private rented accommodation, the growing army of | :57:21. | :57:28. | |
labour generation rent. It has held line the pockets of private | :57:29. | :57:35. | |
landlords. Housing benefit has now grown to ?24 billion per year, and | :57:36. | :57:40. | |
increased a ?4.4 billion since 2010. The promise made by the prime | :57:41. | :57:43. | |
minister to replace like for like coming each house sold under the | :57:44. | :57:47. | |
Right to Buy scheme, has already been broken. 1346 houses were sold | :57:48. | :57:54. | |
under the Right to Buy scheme in the Northwest during the last three | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
years, was just a meagre 16 replacement Right to Buy homes being | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
built copy the Chancellor has created the perfect step in a | :58:04. | :58:09. | |
dysfunctional housing market. The combination of the ill thought | :58:10. | :58:12. | |
through right to by extension, along with the unfunded rent freeze has | :58:13. | :58:18. | |
led to new charger and major social and my constituency are announcing | :58:19. | :58:24. | |
the loss of over 150 jobs. Last Friday, I met with Ian Munro, the | :58:25. | :58:29. | |
chief executive of picture, he informed me that they had ingested | :58:30. | :58:34. | |
to scale back the plans to build an additional 2000 desperately needed | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
houses locally. It was new charges intention to build the properties | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
over the next four-year period, but this has now been reduced to just | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
600. Clearly this will have a direct impact on people like layer, along | :58:49. | :58:52. | |
the local building industry. Will not be able to meet the need, ever | :58:53. | :59:00. | |
increasing, in my area. To put this into a context, our local housing | :59:01. | :59:04. | |
waiting list currently stands at around 8000 applicants -- 3000 | :59:05. | :59:13. | |
application. New charger receives on average 80 applications every week. | :59:14. | :59:18. | |
The preferred group of housing tenure being pursued by this | :59:19. | :59:21. | |
government of homeownership is just not realistic for the majority of my | :59:22. | :59:28. | |
constituents. Don't get me wrong. I welcome the Bill that restrict the | :59:29. | :59:35. | |
operation of... And I acknowledge that not all private landlords are | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
irresponsible sharks. But too many private landlords unfortunately have | :59:41. | :59:47. | |
a take the money and run attitudes. Our social landlords know that | :59:48. | :59:51. | |
providing homes is not just about recs and mortar, it is also about | :59:52. | :59:55. | |
living communities. This bill does not go far enough to make private | :59:56. | :00:00. | |
granting an affordable, sustainable secure option. As this bill stands, | :00:01. | :00:08. | |
it will mean a severe loss of affordable homes for local | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
communities across England. It will centralise the significant powers in | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
the hands of the Secretary of State and deprived vassals of the capacity | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
to meet the housing needs of their communities -- counsel. It will | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
prevent local people from having a proper say in the planning process, | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
as has already been mentioned. In conclusion, just a couple of weeks | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
ago I asked the housing minister to come along to my constituency and | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
listen to the very people that are being hit by the damaging measures | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
implemented on the social housing sector are. I still have not had a | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
resource to my invitation. Maybe I will get one today. LAUGHTER | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
Again, I asked the Minister please meet with management and the housing | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
union, which represents its workers. Myself and my colleagues on | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
the Labour benches are determined to protect our social housing for the | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
sake of current and future tenants. Labour was and remained the party of | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
mass house-building we want to see Britain building again. Hear, hear! | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
I am pleased to follow. She talked about her constituents passionately. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
I want to ensure that Britain is a country where her constituents and | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
mine can all aspire, through good decent jobs, to buy their own home. | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
That is why am pleased to rise in broad support of this bill. I | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
support the initiatives being taken forward on Brownfield. I support the | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
desire to streamline CPOs. This bill still needs much further work. In my | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
short time this evening, I hope to be able to outline a few things | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
which I hope the Minister will consider carefully. First, I believe | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
that planning a principal mustn't be used inappropriately to overrule | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
local councils. We have set out that we want to streamline Brownfield | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
development. This is right, we must prioritise that. But local councils | :02:17. | :02:26. | |
in devising local plans, must be listened to. And further, | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
neighbourhood plans must be listened to. The definition of Brownfield is | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
lacking in clarity. For example, would a town centre site where there | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
is a mixed-use building of retail and residential be considered | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Brownfield if some of the buildings and use, but not all of it? These | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
are questions that must be considered and articulated more | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
clearly. I believe that the government, and I would support the | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
government in doing this, is determined to regenerate our town | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
centres to ensure that our prosperous vibrant places for people | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
to live him a shop and work. I shall. Thank you. I just wanted if I | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
could ask the honourable member if he has given any consideration to | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
the additional cost that might be involved in clearing the site, | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
particularly when there is industrial use? And the effect were | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
land value is solo that resell actually doesn't meet those | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
additional costs? I think the honourable Lady for her | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
intervention. She is right. This is indeed what I was just about to go | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
to. The cost of Brownfield remediation. I knew the government | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
considered very carefully in terms of the ?1 billion regeneration fund | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
that the government set out to introduce. I am a passionate | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
supporter of this fund. I believe it needs to be robbed forward were | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
quickly, with local counsel so they'd understand how to access it | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
-- brought forward. I believe this is a poor initiative to bring some | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
of those sites into use, where otherwise it would not be possible | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
for housing development. And they will lie empty to the detriment of | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Greenfield of elements that put forward by developers. As my | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
honourable friend said a minute ago, too, it is important we linked | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
not only the readme aviation into the deal, but infrastructure -- | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
remediation. There is not enough in this bill about how infrastructure | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
will be delivered in equal step with new development. It is important | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
that infrastructure is taken forward copy we have heard the government's | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
commitment to infrastructure projects. I want ministers to | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
consider carefully how this will be brought forward as a part of any | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
planning process that is introduced to this bill. -- through this bill. | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
We should also consider sale, because it will be reduced for | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Brownfield development as members have rightly recognised. -- sill. It | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
is difficult to bring this forward, but critical that we do. I wanted to | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
ensure that this is not a barrier to Brownfield development. We are using | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
regeneration funding to achieve it and the government can step in, and | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
I believe it is dipping into make sure that is the case. Turning to | :05:22. | :05:28. | |
Brownfield register. I shall. Thank my honourable friend for giving way. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
Would he agree with me that it would certainly help about the need to | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
deliver infrastructure in step with new housing development? Very often | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
I find local planning authorities are very cautious of honour is | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
conditions of what the inspector is minding to be dangerous conditions. | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
I want clarification on what is dangerous or not. Possibly a more | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
robust approach to set those conditions to set those conditions | :06:00. | :06:00. | |
Tuesday that infrastructure delivered at pace? I think my mobile | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
friend for his comments. I think he is right that government does not | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
necessarily have to fund project, it can help local authorities in | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
delivering the infrastructure that local communities need, simply by | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
providing that clarity. I think throughout this bill further | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
clarity, and I am sure that ministers have it in mind to bring | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
this forward either in the bill or in regulations, to set up clear | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
English but local authorities can and cannot ask for in delivering for | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
their local residents. That actually moves quite neatly into the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Brownfield register. At the moment, there are so many sites that is | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
important we bring those into use. Deregister is critical to doing | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
that. That is enabling acts and that the government is taking. I welcome | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
that wholeheartedly. I hope that the government will adopt a approach to | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
the register that is common to the other parts of the planning process. | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
It doesn't have to be gleaned landowner to put properties in a | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
register. It can be put in by any interested party. The council them | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
waited upon options. I think that will be a helpful step to ensure | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
that even when a land is not for homeownership, suggestions can be | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
pulled forward and local authorities who are Dimock radically elected, | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
and if we believe in the Klizan we want to give them power to make | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
these decisions, they can decide what decisions are good for them in | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
the future -- democratically elected.... Others who want to put | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
more developed that is necessarily to meet local need and the district. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
It is an opportunity to ensure that local authorities can shape the | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
future of their place. I will move on to compulsory purchase orders. | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
The bill, the government's initiative is to make these clear, | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
fair and faster. I fully support this. I think it is the right | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
direction of travel. Hear, hear! It will help local authorities use | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
the information. Help them look at the infrastructure needs for their | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
area and deliver a package of measures that work for the | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
community. But, I say again, there is currently required. -- clarity. | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
... To make it easier for councils to do just that. It is important to | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
remember that councils need the support am a financial and | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
otherwise, and also need to make it happen in terms of nano purchase. | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Back in the arranged by bag deals with developers. But also through | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
the process of undertaking compulsory purchase order. That is | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
costly and takes much time, streamlining will help. But there is | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
support required to councils to make that happen. I must move quickly on | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
to write to buy. I am fully in support of the Right to Buy policy. | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
I believe it is right that people have the chance to own their own | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
home. I would encourage the government to go forward. I want to | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
see these rented, affordable homes become the presumption in any | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
section 186 agreement, on any new development deeper place by the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
option for local authorities to say we want to have affordable homes to | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
buy -- be replaced. I believe, because that still requires local | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
authorities to produce a mix of housing types and ten years. It | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
might be that local authorities as we have got enough homes to rent, we | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
want more to buy. Is to be for local authorities to determine that. I | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
hope the government will look at that point in particular. Further, | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
is should be looked up to local authorities to say when money is | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
being accrued from the sale of homes, there is a potential for | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
off-site provision. It may well be that it's possible to deliver more | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
homes in another place. And Deputy Speaker, I support the bill and I | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
hope the ministers will look at those carefully. Hear, hear! | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
Thank you. I noted carefully the comments from the member from North | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
East Hampshire, who was certainly not the only member on the bench | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
opposite hope we'll have some concerns with this bill. And members | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
on our side have made many good speeches with some very serious | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
concerns. Madam Deputy Speaker, this bill brings no hope to be 600 | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
families in temporary accommodation and my constituency. The thousands | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
of young people with no hope of owning their own home. Also those | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
who cannot even find somewhere to can afford to rent in West London. I | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
concur with the comments of my colleagues on this side. I will | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
focus on the planning aspects of the bill. This bill undermines the | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
planning system that has that this country well for 70 years. One which | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
was introduced after the free-for-all speculative housing | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
development of the 1930s. Making permanent the prior approval for | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
change of use for offices and extending it to industrial space, | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
provides a free-for-all of the same nature. My local authority has an | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
excellent record of delivering housing across all tenures, | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
including 3000 affordable homes in which 400 our counsel homes in the | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
last administration. That was before the prior approval came in. Many | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
buildings and sites the longer appropriate for their old use, | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
factories offices, a magistrate court, have all gone to use for | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
housing. Decent quality housing with appropriate agreement providing | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
affordable housing am a decent space standards, decent community spaces | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
of. There was no need to bypass local authorities by introducing the | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
prior approval rating to remove the normal oversight and change of use | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
to housing, which this bill extends permanently. I have an e-mail asking | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
me to speak up for their members, 80 of whom have been or fear being | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
forced out of their office premises as a direct result of the prior | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
approval rating. This system has been devastating to small office in | :12:20. | :12:29. | |
our town centre. Also to be retail and catering businesses, who depend | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
on the lunchtime trade generated by the people who work in these | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
premises. Traded that the residents of the replacement flats do not | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
bring. There are plenty of other Brownfield and redundant building | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
that could be used and are being used and turned into the housing | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
without devastating the small business community of our town | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
centres. Since the prior approval was introduced in May 2013, it | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
resulted in a potential loss of over 80,000 m2 of office for space. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Furthermore, while this has resulted in a net gain of 1251 residential | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
units in the borough, it has also made a potential loss of 512 | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
affordable units. Y? Because at the schemes have gone through the normal | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
planning out applications Ross as instead of the prior approval | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
process, they would have had to provide 40% affordable housing on | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
site as per the policies in the local plan. The prior approval | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
process needs no assessment on the go station, no assessment as to be | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
space standards, as parking standards community standards, and | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
the employment for space. In a bill that brings welcome clauses on rogue | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
landlords, this bill actually legitimises the creation of | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
substandard housing with wholly inadequate space and other standards | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
will. I am not opposed to former office is becoming housing or indeed | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
schools, places of worship, a Cetera. But we should use the | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
planning system that is open, transparent, accountable. We should | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
use that to enable that to happen. Not the clauses in this bill. | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Secondly, this bill will do Mac removes the voices of local people. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
Enhanced local authority planning powers to be Secretary of State and | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
removes any community engagement. Yes, we need new homes and we need | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
great places to live, learn and play. But the permission and | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
principle Clause will serve Reilly Ristic -- severely restrict ability | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
to comment on or a check the development on these sites. -- | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
reject. That has been no consultation on this provision. We | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
have no problem with the conversion of employment and buildings being | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
used to deliver the homes of the future, but not at the cost of fibre | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
and businesses. Or at the cost of appropriate local oversight. In | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
conclusion, this bill is bad for families in temporary accommodation. | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
And for all those who cannot afford to rent privately such as the couple | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
I met in my surgery the other week. Bad for those small and growing | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
business is in West London, particularly the town centres, whose | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
landlords are rushing to change their are pretty into housing. And a | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
bad for the shops, cafes and restaurants who depend on the | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
lunchtime trade those businesses during. It is therefore employers | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
such as a chief executive of our local hospital, struggling to | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
recruit and retain qualified staff because of the housing prices that | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
this bill does not solve. -- housing crisis. Bad for community | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
organisations shut out of planning and this decision-making. ... Hear, | :15:46. | :15:58. | |
hear! I draw the houses attention to my | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
entry in the registry of members financial interest. I welcome this | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
bill. I think it stands with some of the finest examples of progressive, | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
conservative policies and housing under the last 100 years -- Hear, | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
hear! It is a radical bill, but | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
nevertheless a very pragmatic ill. It draws on the success of this | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
government in areas like Help to Buy. In the last five years, we | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
delivered 260,000 affordable homes, 140,000 housing completions in the | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
last year. I read very carefully. I will be respectful to my honourable | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
gentleman, I read carefully his Observer piece yesterday. It was | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
long on complaint, but very short on coherent policies. He complains | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
about the 32 new planning and housing powers invested in the | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Secretary of State, but he then says in the same breath that we have a | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
housing crisis in terms of supply of housing and that we need to deal | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
with it. Well we are dealing with it. We also have a manifesto | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
commitment in terms of starter homes delivering 1 million starter homes | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
by 2020 and the Right to Buy for housing associations. I for one make | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
no apologies about being very proud that Right to Buy in the 1980s | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
delivered the biggest transfer of capital to working people of any | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
policy ever, and British political history. I am very proud of what we | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
did. Starter homes is the right policy. It was a little bit of an | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
afterthought for the, emerging from the ministerial fee at inserted in | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
March this year into the guidelines, but now it is on a proper | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
legislative basis. I welcome the new legal duty of local planning | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
authorities to promote the supply of homes, for proper monitoring and the | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
flexibility to as between the number of homes and the areas of PA will | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
not be the same. We have discrete housing markets as the honourable | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
Lady made the point, between different housing markets. I would | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
challenge the Minister perhaps to look at the fact that there is | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
specific reference in the bill to be inserted do Mac and search in of | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
starter homes. I might be wrong there and he might need to look at | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
that in terms of the MPPF committee. There may be some discrepancy with | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
section 38-6 of the planning and purchase act number 1984, where | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
local planning authorities have to give proper cognizance to their | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
adopted plans. In respect to the Brownfield register, I support that. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
I welcome Clause 102 and 103 of the bill. And the permission and | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
principle in particular. Only last year the CPRE told us that 975,000 | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
homes could be developed domain delivered by utilising properly | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Brownfield sites. We have got a cross government policy on this | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
issue. Public accounts committee only very recently looked at the | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
failures of a department to properly co-ordinate and use its methodology | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
to follow through the provision of land to actual building of houses. I | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
will give way. Also recognise that one of the things we need to do, we | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
are going to encourage people to develop Brownfield sites, is to make | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
sure that if they are having planning commission for it, what | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
they should do is just sit on it. Should we not consider actually | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
making sure that they start paying business rates on that land which is | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
potentially going to be a development? I have long been an | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
advocate of government to land banking. But the idea of land | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
banking is apparently an urban myth. I think we do need to do more work | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
on that. I hope that the Minister will take on board my honourable | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
friend's comments copy I strongly endorse, on this occasion I will. | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
Did the honourable member noticed in the report in reference to a 109,500 | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
potential homes from the land that was sold and distinctly that our | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
constituents don't live in potential homes but in actual homes and they | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
need to be sure to actually get built? I think that was one of the | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
lessons that my honourable friend in his normal astute way puts his | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
finger on it, that indeed the methodology was not as robust as | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
they should have been. And following through the allocation of land to be | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
actual construction of houses which people live in. Can I strongly | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
support and endorse part two of the bill on tackling slum landlords. We | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
have an issue with the degradation of large residential areas by slum | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
landlords, which is a very bad news for vulnerable tenants. I think this | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
in the database is very well, along with licensing which is already in | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
place under the housing act, 2004. We have got scarce resources and | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
government and need to focus it in the most efficient and effective | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
way. So we need of course to provide for people with long-term needs such | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
as mental illness Tom at supportive housing. We need to look at extra | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
care facilities and keep out, bargain out our contract with | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
working families who do struggle to get on a housing let. I believe it | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
is absolutely viable that we look at things such as removing SME builders | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
from responsibilities and obligations on section 106 to drive | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
the market. There has been too much consolidation by large. We need to | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
bring some of those smaller construction companies back into the | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
market. I would urge the Minister to please look again at vacant building | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
credit, challenge the High Court decision because this is about | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
getting marginal outfields by developments, which develop, which | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
would deliver hundreds of homes, thousands of homes to people. We | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
need to go back and it is a great disappointment to me that a | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
conservative council saw fit to challenge the parliament on the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
issue. I agree with permitted development rights for the | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
conversion of commercial and office premises to residential development. | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
I think there should be greater clarity on that before Article four | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
is used by some of the local authorities to prevent that. I | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
welcome part six of the bill, and I challenge the shadow minister, what | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
else would you do when 18% of local plans have not been published, buddy | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
5% not fully adopted, and one in five local authorities do not have a | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
lead supply plan -- 35% not fully adopted? I am for homes for my | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
people in my constituency and across the country. I support a Clause 106 | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
on nationally selected infrastructure projects, but I think | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
we need more clarity. Let's look in a wider context of the demographic | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
changes that are affecting our country. The number of single person | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
households has doubled since my teen 61 two 2014 -- 1961. Owner Oppy | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
patient may not be for everyone. I support that -- owner occupation, I | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
accept that. We need extra care facilities to help with that hugely | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
important issue between adult section care and acute care in | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
hospitals. We need to tackle the skills crisis and construction. Two | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
thirds of small construction companies said in August downward | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
because they do not have the skills. Plasterers, carpenters, | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
bricklayers, and apprenticeships are very of or get. Finally I would say | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
access to capital infrastructure, Brownfield regeneration, complex | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
remediation issues and bringing onto market many more intermediate | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
markets products so we can support do-it-yourself shared ownership and | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
other forms of intermediate tenure. Because social rent is important in | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
some areas, but we are moving away from that model. In conclusion, | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
Madam Deputy Speaker, this bill is much needed and will revolutionise | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
construction, housing, and planning in our country. I certainly will be | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
giving it my most support to my. Hear, hear! | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
Thank you very much Madam Deputy Speaker. I feel like there is a | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
story not being told about social rented housing in this country. For | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
me social rented housing is a public asset, it is something we need to | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
support for that reason. I want to first mission my grandmother and | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
grandfather. They moved in 1963 and they lived in that house up until | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
now. They went into a care home and they are finishing the process of | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
emptying their home. They spent 52 years and that home. As a social | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
rented house in belongs to the Council. It is nice to think that | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
having had a family through that house, other families will get to | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
enjoy that and make it their home. It will pass on to another | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
generation. My grandfather did not believe in it. Other people from the | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
country would not recognise the home being the castle and the masses | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
believe that necessity of owning it. He and my grandmother had the | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
opportunity to buy if they had chosen to do so. They believe that | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
that that family belonged to the greater good, the common good and | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
that is how it should stay. There are people who I represent who will | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
not have the chance to own their own home. They may not even have to own | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
their own home. They may not even have a bank account and they cannot | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
get a mortgage. We need to provide choice for people and cities and | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
across our country. Choice for people who want to choose to have a | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
house. People in my constituency want the option of a front and back | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
door, and the support of the housing association that they offer. There | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
is a lot of social support that local authorities give to their | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
tenets of that the private sector will never provide. Rather it be on | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
a debt and money device or benefit advice, or rather it is someone you | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
want to go and ask for help. Those are important social function. I | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
think it is something that we need to keep in mind. From my | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
grandparents, they had someone to call if there was a issue with | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
heating or electricity in the house. Over the years, investment was put | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
into it by the local authority. The heating, relighting, new windows, | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
the social landlords will make the investments and private landlords | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
will not. There is actually a project in my constituency to bring | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
back housing from private ownership and to bring back housing from | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
private ownership into housing Association those houses will fall | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
down, and they are falling down because the private landlords cannot | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
take on the responsibility. They will not take on the responsibility. | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
There is a social imperative to take on those houses and make sure they | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
are sustained for future generations. They are symbolic when | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
you think of Glasgow. Over the years, they were lost to private | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
landlords who are charging a fortune for these houses. They are going on | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
the housing benefit Bill. There is a real need for those to come back. | :28:15. | :28:24. | |
The housing Association plan to make investments on the basis of the | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
friend that is received, when those houses are sold off under Right to | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
Buy, they cannot plan for investment. That is the tenants | :28:32. | :28:45. | |
money. They invest because they know that there is a certainty of income. | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
On at this housing bill, there is a 1% reduction in rent, the housing | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
Federation before the committee, felt very strongly. He felt very | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
strongly that government should not be indeed business of telling | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
housing associations what the bills should be -- what the rent should be | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
based on what their tenets want and what can they afford. Longer waiting | :29:16. | :29:26. | |
list have been mentioned. This forces people out of the areas and | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
reduces the social mix and a diverse city. -- a diverse the high and | :29:32. | :29:47. | |
income that was mentioned, does not certainly seem to be, but looking at | :29:48. | :29:57. | |
this I am quite concerned that this policy is to take household income | :29:58. | :30:05. | |
into account when determining when the income thresholds are met. I am | :30:06. | :30:17. | |
quite worried at. This will also cause them to be forced out. You | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
have older adults and younger adults living in the same house. Young | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
people cannot afford to rent anywhere. That is quite warring. | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
There should be more clarity on what that means. I am concerned about | :30:33. | :30:41. | |
housing associations where do you do not have the ability to get other | :30:42. | :30:54. | |
land close by. Order! Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. Housing is in issue | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
that affects all of us. I am sure many honourable members have stories | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
of people contacting them concerned about the cost of buying their own | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
home and getting on the housing ladder as their parents and | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
grandparents did and as they want their children to be -- do. I am | :31:11. | :31:21. | |
pleased that the last figures showed a 243 families and my own | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
constituencies and benefited from the scheme. My home town of North | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
Hampton is a high-growth area with many new housing developments being | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
built. Earlier this year, I visited one of the new developments and | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
found out that 70% of the new houses were being sold to help too by. | :31:39. | :31:46. | |
Clearly, that's cable and that that scheme will and next year as the | :31:47. | :31:54. | |
economy improves. People who work hard and want a home of their own to | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
secure their future in every stage of their lives. These schemes sold | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
the parties commitment to housing and supporting the aspirations of | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
people who want to own their own home. This was the party that | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
introduced the Right to Buy in the 1980s. I am proud to be a part of | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
the party that is extending the Right to Buy to housing | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
associations. We can now and the discrimination for housing | :32:23. | :32:24. | |
association tenants who were denied the opportunity to all of their own | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
home. I am pleased that constituents of mine living and housing | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
association properties in North Hampton have already been in contact | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
with me to ask for a update on the Right to Buy extension. I am sorry | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
to hear the Labour party opposing the Right to Buy. You have to wonder | :32:44. | :32:52. | |
if they are against homeownership. I am pleased that this was achieved | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
through a deal with the housing association which many people said | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
would not be possible. I congratulate my right honourable | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
friend, the Secretary of State on securing this. I am sure the housing | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
association will also welcome to reduce the regulations on housing | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
authorities. Helping people to buy their own home is only part of this | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
process. We need to change the way we build and deliver affordable | :33:17. | :33:23. | |
home. For too long this was focus on dividing low-cost rental properties | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
people want a home of their own. Affordable homes need to be just | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
that. The current planning roles make starter homes affordable and | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
first-time buyers cannot get the 20% discount. These are the type of | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
homes that the best type of people who are trying to get on the housing | :33:44. | :33:50. | |
ladder. We need to make sure that there are enough home delivered to | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
meet their local needs. For my time as a leader in North Hampton, | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
councils have not built enough housing. That puts strain on the | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
system and does not help the relation with the tenets. I was | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
pleased to announce the building of new homes to kick-start a major | :34:07. | :34:12. | |
programme of house building. I know it will take some time to be built, | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
I welcome the changes being proposed to be planning process. Indeed, I | :34:17. | :34:25. | |
welcome the whole process around the planning including those in my own | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
constituency and and Dustin where the referendum takes place on | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
Thursday. I wish them all well and congratulate everyone who has taken | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
part in it. I could talk about many things in this bill which I | :34:41. | :34:43. | |
support, the proposals to cut down on landlords, to help with | :34:44. | :34:51. | |
homelessness, and the work on a bringing back, but also the work | :34:52. | :35:00. | |
around houses with occupancy. I believe are linked to criminality | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
and people trafficking. We have heard a lot about issues with Right | :35:04. | :35:11. | |
to Buy with replacing houses. Under another scheme, the big delay was | :35:12. | :35:14. | |
around planning so I welcome the changes and that this bill. Housing | :35:15. | :35:21. | |
is key for all of us. I'm happy the government has put this at the | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
forefront of the agenda and I am looking for to seeing the future of | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
the referendum as we meet the countries housing need. There are | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
things to be a certain level of agreements across the house that | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
there is a time for a new approach. There is a less agreement that the | :35:41. | :35:44. | |
bill is in answer. I am clear that this does nothing to tackle the | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
housing crisis but it does happen and impact. This bill will continue | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
to boost demand for housing but did nothing to address supply. It will | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
lead to a rented house prices and increasing which will mean the drain | :35:59. | :36:03. | |
for home ownership is further out of reach for many of my constituents | :36:04. | :36:10. | |
is. -- during. Going faster is no good is. It is all in the wrong | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
direction. It will lead to more and more planning and communities. | :36:15. | :36:30. | |
Instead, we will see a Greenville first approached with the | :36:31. | :36:34. | |
Brownsville sides left empty while local people are crying out for | :36:35. | :36:40. | |
development. People find themselves locked out of the process | :36:41. | :36:45. | |
altogether. The planning changes brought about in the last five years | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
have given us the worst of both worlds. On the outskirts, developers | :36:51. | :37:01. | |
have wanted to obtain permission for homes and at the same time many | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
brown fields sides closer to the town centre which have the capacity | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
to deliver these homes bring much-needed investment into these | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
communities lie empty. Not one of them has had any bricks | :37:13. | :37:25. | |
being laid. There is no realistic prospect of that happening. The | :37:26. | :37:34. | |
motivations of developers have been allowed to override any | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
considerations of wishes and what is actually needed in the local housing | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
market. There is nothing in this bill that will compel developers to | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
build and areas were construction could start tomorrow. When I see the | :37:50. | :37:56. | |
trucks and our town, I see a system that is broken. When I see people in | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
my constituency unable to live in a secure home, I see a failure in the | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
market. When I read this bill I'd see more of the same. I see a | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
continued push for the market, where the market has failed us. We all | :38:11. | :38:18. | |
know where the sites are now. The obligations under section one have | :38:19. | :38:20. | |
been a watered down by that Coalition government. They are not | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
worth the paper that it is written on. Developers have been able to use | :38:25. | :38:34. | |
planning roles to get there planning to build a home. Developers have | :38:35. | :38:46. | |
driven to these weakened the role. They say that anything less than a | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
20% profit margin is impossible to work with. The result is that these | :38:51. | :38:59. | |
positions are amended. When to the local treasury tried to Thomas his | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
process, the Secretary of State and spectre came down and handing it | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
that local people had big bills and the process. We are penalizing local | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
councils for trying to meet local housing needs. It is in evolution. | :39:16. | :39:28. | |
This bill is a... Of course, we want to see people get on the housing | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
ladder but this bill will not achieve that. There is nothing in | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
this bill that will compel developers to build homes and prices | :39:37. | :39:39. | |
that people can afford. What is labelled as a starter home, is far | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
out of reach for those that should be seeking to help. This pushes the | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
dream of homeownership further away than ever. As we heard from the | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
honourable member, starter homes will only be affordable for people | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
on the living wage and a 2% of local authority areas. We heard a lot | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
about the government for the government 41%. IEC that is | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
improvement, but it is not a laughing matter. -- 1%. Young people | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
cannot afford to live there because the starter home prices is in excess | :40:18. | :40:26. | |
of deep normal price there. The scheme will be counterproductive. | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
The maximum values can become the default position. The greater the | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
price, the greater the profit. This bill does not tell us how many | :40:38. | :40:44. | |
starter homes will be built. Blood who will see is for developers to | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
call the shots and relying on the market which has failed us. What is | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
absent from this bill is meeting the existing need for social housing. | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
How is the business plan if ever you're going to stack up if every | :41:02. | :41:10. | |
year they have to... How can it be right that housing associations are | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
able to enter a deal for Right to Buy but never the less at the same | :41:15. | :41:20. | |
time the government is saying that they are going to take money off of | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
you and spend it how they wish? That is in abuse of power. We should vote | :41:25. | :41:37. | |
against it. Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. It is a pleasure to follow | :41:38. | :41:49. | |
the members. I am astonished to hear so many members on the other side is | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
speaking against the governmental proposal to reduce the rent for | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
those living and social houses. Hundreds of my constituents have can | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
thank me that this conservative government is on their side and is | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
reducing their rents and putting more money in their pocket. I | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
welcome this bill broadly. I think it is in excellent piece of | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
legislation. And my first beach when I return to parliament after winning | :42:17. | :42:21. | |
my constituency with and increased majority, I spoke about some | :42:22. | :42:27. | |
concerns I had about the data, sort of bones of the rights to Buy | :42:28. | :42:37. | |
policy. And all the work that they have done. I think that we generally | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
have a and exceptional change scheme which is welcomed by people across | :42:44. | :42:50. | |
the housing industry. I refer colleagues to my declaration of | :42:51. | :42:55. | |
interest for other properties. I know, that has and industry the | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
social housing industry is one I am extremely proud of and proud to be a | :43:02. | :43:07. | |
part of. I am happy they have come forward with this solution which | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
will enable 1.3 million social tenets to benefit from the Right to | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
Buy. Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves what we stand up and speak | :43:17. | :43:19. | |
in this solution which will enable 1.3 million social tenets to benefit | :43:20. | :43:21. | |
from the Right to Buy. Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves what we | :43:22. | :43:28. | |
stand up and speak and is housed from tenants who want to exercise | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
their Right to Buy and live off the dream of owning their own home. | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
Bitterly, every members constituency, hundreds of thousands | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
of people are exercising that Right to Buy. I want to move on to the | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
governments proposal around starter home. This is delivering on a | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
promise to move from generational threat. -- rent. Homeownership has | :43:55. | :44:05. | |
fallen since the 1980s. Over the weekend, I was doing some research | :44:06. | :44:11. | |
and I looked at the end comes and my constituency, they were between the | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
three and 6%. I think that is a pretty high barrier to | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
homeownership. I looked at London, it is up to 32 times earnings. Which | :44:24. | :44:30. | |
is a barrier where people cannot cross. It is important that we come | :44:31. | :44:37. | |
forward with this proposal with a 200,000 starter homes and ever | :44:38. | :44:41. | |
adoption for 20% with first-time buyer. I welcome specifically the | :44:42. | :44:49. | |
government decision to design a panel. I have seen on too many | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
occasions where a good design has been sacrificed because of cost. I | :44:54. | :45:00. | |
hope the panel will enable us to build high-quality homes with | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
locally sourced materials. Sympathetic to local surroundings | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
and fit for all buyers for generations to come. I hope as his | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
bill goes to Parliament be take the opportunity to discuss other steps. | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
I hope and believe the government should enable first-time buyers to | :45:21. | :45:31. | |
get past that hurdle. I believe, the government should not change and the | :45:32. | :45:38. | |
burden of duties. From the buyer to the seller. This would ensure that | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
all the way up the chain, every single person who is buying would | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
get a reduction in duties. The first-time buyer would pay no stamp | :45:48. | :45:54. | |
duty at all. We talk a lot about the Bank of mum and dad, it comes from | :45:55. | :46:00. | |
people saving every single month. Just to get the deposit. I think | :46:01. | :46:07. | |
people and my own constituency, that extra stretch to get the stamp duty | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
puts them off from buying a home for and additional year. In that | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
period, house prices have gone up. They have to save even more. Having | :46:18. | :46:25. | |
to save the stamp duty is putting off for many years. The only person | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
who would lose out on the stamp duty being passed up the chain rather | :46:31. | :46:33. | |
than being passed down are people who are at the top who are | :46:34. | :46:35. | |
downsizing the Mac. They have gone from buying a house | :46:36. | :46:48. | |
in 2030 years ago to downsizing. I hope that they will look at the | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
proposal. Finally I would say that I support all of the plans to help | :46:56. | :47:02. | |
landlords and in the area of low demand. Particularly in my own area | :47:03. | :47:12. | |
to not only use these powers when this bill becomes enacted, but use | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
some of the powers which are already there to tackle absentee landlord. | :47:17. | :47:24. | |
In conclusion, I think this is in excellent piece of legislation. I | :47:25. | :47:27. | |
think we have come a very long way and it is something I look forward | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
to supporting and Parliament to all stages of the bill. It is a pleasure | :47:32. | :47:42. | |
as always. His points about the stamp duty are very | :47:43. | :47:45. | |
thought-provoking I appreciate him sharing them with the house. Mr | :47:46. | :47:50. | |
Deputy Speaker, they need to address the housing crisis and its country | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
has never been greater. There is a chronic lack of supply and long-term | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
vision from the government. I am glad that the government has brought | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
this bill to the house for us to examine. They are finally showing | :48:05. | :48:11. | |
effort to help the crisis. After five years of neglect they are | :48:12. | :48:16. | |
trying to build more homes were the house building failed to its lowest | :48:17. | :48:19. | |
record. This bill does nothing to tackle some of the most profound | :48:20. | :48:25. | |
problems. For so many of my constituents, homeownership must | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
become a more affordable and accessible so that those who are | :48:29. | :48:31. | |
looking to own a home can make that first step. For anybody taking even | :48:32. | :48:40. | |
a look at the detail will reach a glaring conclusion that these homes | :48:41. | :48:43. | |
are simply not affordable to those on ordinary incomes. In fact, | :48:44. | :48:50. | |
families on the governments new minimum wage, not a national living | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
wage, will be able to afford a starter home in only 2% of local | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
authority areas. This brings the question of which the bracket of the | :49:01. | :49:12. | |
population is assisting? Mr Deputy Speaker, my biggest eggs that he is | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
that while this bill will do little to make the gym of homeownership it | :49:17. | :49:21. | |
will also deal a fatal blow to social housing. The bill | :49:22. | :49:27. | |
aggressively support starter homes and prioritise them over all other | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
types of housing. This directly impairs obligations. Over 230 | :49:35. | :49:44. | |
thousand affordable homes. This will be nothing short every tragic loss | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
of what should be well for to as affordable homes. My constituency | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
has just signed a bill to get more homes on a site and the Redcar. | :49:56. | :50:02. | |
Maintaining a mix were truly affordable homes are part of the | :50:03. | :50:08. | |
development must be a priority. Turning to Right to Buy, the | :50:09. | :50:12. | |
implementation of the scheme is at best a poorly thought out policy. | :50:13. | :50:19. | |
Housing associations have complained that the concept is flawed and we | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
know from the performance of the earlier model that over 30% of all | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
homes sold, are now controlled by private landlords. I did not have | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
and ideological problem for Right to Buy but I disagree with the member | :50:33. | :50:41. | |
from Uxbridge for having objected the exploitation of a precious | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
asset, a home which is being exported to push of rent and take | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
the aspiration of homeownership by reducing supply. That provision will | :50:51. | :50:56. | |
mean higher rates and higher spending on housing benefit of | :50:57. | :50:59. | |
producing the worst outcome for tenant. As well as a catastrophic | :51:00. | :51:05. | |
completion for howling souls. Effectively will last for ever. Just | :51:06. | :51:13. | |
as concerning is how is this being funded? The scheme has serious | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
upfront cost. Housing associations will have to be compensated. If all | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
of the eligible households decide to take up this game it could cost and | :51:26. | :51:35. | |
astonishing ?11.6 billion. The money we have been told is going to | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
funded, will be counseled selling most expensive properties as they | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
become available. This scheme is supposed to raise ?4.5 billion. We | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
are barely six months beyond the election and already we have seen | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
the government math add up. This could be seen in the 1% cut to | :51:55. | :52:02. | |
social friends. This will lead to a ?60 million shortfall in my housing | :52:03. | :52:14. | |
Association and the Redcar. All of these services are provided by my | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
local association. These will be the things that should be taken into | :52:19. | :52:32. | |
consideration. Finally Mr Deputy Speaker I want is touch on the pay | :52:33. | :52:38. | |
to stay for high and come social tenant. This is the latest | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
nonsensical assault on the latest nonsensical assault on how out of | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
touch with government is with what tenants face. If you are collecting | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
?30,000 and your household rents will be increased to market level. | :52:54. | :53:01. | |
This could be a total disincentive to higher paid employment. I ask the | :53:02. | :53:06. | |
Secretary of State to clarify this. And avoid the government taking | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
money out of the pockets of hard-working people. The honourable | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
gentleman started his speech with and description of new housing being | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
more than bricks and water and how the homes shape the lives of people. | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
Why should my constituents continue to give him any credit for such a | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
statement when his government persist with the bedroom tax? That | :53:27. | :53:28. | |
for me, order! Bedfellows while e-commerce back to | :53:29. | :53:55. | |
get more time. This is very welcome Mr Deputy Speaker, I am grateful. | :53:56. | :53:59. | |
Micrograph of the fall of the Honorable Lady from Redcar. I think | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
this is an in a bid to Bill. It is a big deal that is going to be bring | :54:05. | :54:08. | |
about a great change. It builds on this parties great tradition of | :54:09. | :54:11. | |
supporting those who are aspirational to own their own homes. | :54:12. | :54:17. | |
A bill which allows over 1 million people, potentially to buy their own | :54:18. | :54:20. | |
homes and housing associations has got to be a good thing. I have | :54:21. | :54:26. | |
listened carefully to many speeches opposite today, where members have | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
got up and said that they support the Right to Buy in principle, but | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
then there is a but. And I cannot quite understand this because if | :54:36. | :54:39. | |
they support the Right to Buy principal, presumably when the House | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
is owned by the local authority, why don't they support support when his | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
talk on my housing association. If you are tender, with what difference | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
does it make? So I think this is a good bill. I have a difficulty | :54:51. | :54:58. | |
constituency that it is probably the constituency it dammit and I | :54:59. | :55:05. | |
sympathise with those that either weren't supportability. And | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
therefore I do support this bill, bringing forward more people are | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
able to buy their own houses, but above all more affordable housing. | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
May I commend to my Honorable friend on the front bench, the housing | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
minister, a scheme that we have in our constituencies where we'd use | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
section 106 monies to allow developers to put in trust to the | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
local authorities part of the equity of the House, so that someone | :55:32. | :55:37. | |
particularly first-time buyer can buy a 60% ownership of the House, | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
and that and then staircase up to 100% ownership when they can afford. | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
This does seem to be an excellent game. Lots of members have spoken in | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
detail about the housing provisions in this bill. The time I register | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
branches for members of financial Hedges, I want to talk about by six | :55:56. | :56:03. | |
and seven. A percent of my constituency is dedicated in the | :56:04. | :56:06. | |
areas of natural beauties. So members can see that before I | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
start, I'd have a very difficult planning situation. I do commend my | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
right honourable friend for being the person who introduced the | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
national planning policy framework. Is simplified the planning system | :56:21. | :56:23. | |
and I think it's beginning to work really well. The is it is a planet | :56:24. | :56:30. | |
system, and my local authorities does not have a plan. It has been | :56:31. | :56:34. | |
using every sort of excuse as to why does not have plan. But the | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
neighbouring counsel, would I probably represent, is a bout to get | :56:40. | :56:43. | |
their local plan adopted and I congratulate them. So I do welcome | :56:44. | :56:49. | |
the closets in this bill. Which Clause 999, which enables the | :56:50. | :56:53. | |
Secretary of State to ensure those 36% of local authorities of mine who | :56:54. | :56:56. | |
don't have the plan, the problem is if you don't have a plan, you are | :56:57. | :57:00. | |
subject to some global developer. I welcome in this field the | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
neighbourhood plans that allow local communities to ... I know in the | :57:05. | :57:15. | |
bill, Clause 102, changes the current condition on the floor | :57:16. | :57:17. | |
planning system to technical impressionable stage. I think we | :57:18. | :57:24. | |
need to teach outdoor committee what would be allowed from the principal | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
development to the technical stage. For double, action advocate agrees | :57:30. | :57:34. | |
and housing will be allowed at that stage. Clausen, Clause one of five | :57:35. | :57:38. | |
allows the Secretary of State to take over the planning for stage | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
from local authorities when they've had too many appeals. I think that | :57:43. | :57:48. | |
power is... And should all be using sparing circumstances. I move on to | :57:49. | :57:52. | |
the compulsive purchasing. All businesses are individual. That they | :57:53. | :58:01. | |
would have been a proposal purchase powers had not been used. I | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
appreciate this is far-reaching, because anyone who can prove... | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
Should be compensated. Should expect a high proportion of their money to | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
be paid in advance. Around 80%, so that businesses who need to purchase | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
other properties can go out and do so. The bill doesn't address the | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
interest, the issue of interest rates for late payments and | :58:24. | :58:27. | |
compulsory purchase. And certified a margin over base rate of 2%. The | :58:28. | :58:31. | |
standard condition of sale usually presume a margin of 4% over base, | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
and that I would suggest to the Minister is where it ought to be. I | :58:37. | :58:42. | |
served on the HS2 select committee, and many other petitioners have said | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
a number of times that if the government can afford to be visa | :58:48. | :58:48. | |
large, big infrastructure projects, they can afford to pay generous | :58:49. | :58:53. | |
compensation for those who suffer. And I do think this is a welcome in | :58:54. | :58:57. | |
this build that number of old acts have been consolidated, and I would | :58:58. | :59:03. | |
ask the government if they could make the provisions generous to | :59:04. | :59:09. | |
those who have been affected by big infrastructure projects, because if | :59:10. | :59:12. | |
the government does do that, it will make it easier to build these big | :59:13. | :59:17. | |
projects because it will be less controversy. I would like to welcome | :59:18. | :59:22. | |
at this bill. I think it contains very good provision of the | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
happenings I. I think it contains the provisions to speed up the | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
planning side. But I would urge that the Minister assured that all | :59:30. | :59:32. | |
authorities like mine get an local plan as soon as possible, so they | :59:33. | :59:35. | |
are not subject to some global developers putting in... What we | :59:36. | :59:40. | |
don't need them. Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. There are currently more | :59:41. | :59:46. | |
than 4000 people on the waiting list for my home. And the families need a | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
stable home and to what they need to raise the children. Last year, just | :59:52. | :59:58. | |
180 properties were built in total, it. It we carry on like this, it | :59:59. | :00:04. | |
will take 24 years to a the 4000 people. This bill does not address | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
the underlying cause of the housing crisis in Grimsby. The governments | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
policy of selling off houses Association Scott, without | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
guaranteeing it will be replaced, makes list to make were. I go a cast | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
house and I believe people have the opportunity to own their own home is | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
absolutely right. I think very few people have a problem with the | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
principles to buy. -- a Right to Buy. And the question is that the | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
4000 constituents in my area on the waiting list lacks, with the | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
proposals mean that I can move into a suitable home sooner, or will I be | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
waiting even longer? Mr Deputy Speaker, I fear they will be waiting | :00:57. | :01:04. | |
longer. Adapted housing is a particularly big issue in my | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
constituency and I have been caught been contacted by many disabled | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
constituents who are getting at home with the proper look any. Is rising | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
year and year. And officials are now changing the criteria in order to | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
try and reduce the waiting list. And I am concerned that how many new | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
properties will be built in the coming years. The government needs | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
to set of clearly how the changes they have made to the local | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
authority grants will affect the councils abilities to top of the | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
adaptation grants. Mr Deputy Speaker, I fear for the unintended | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
consequences of this bill, in particular the impact of a 1% year | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
on year cut in social Brent. Which is great for those who are living in | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
that accommodation, but it will have a very real negative effect on the | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
services and support currently offered to local housing | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
associations. Hi lodges of affordable housing provider, | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
shoreline, has just gone consultation are shedding 17% of | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
jobs of the people they employ in the housing association. I cannot | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
believe this is part of the so-called long-term economic plan to | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
put forward people are unaware in my constituency, or were already | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
dissenting hires unemployed constituency in the whole of the | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
country. Adding to the points made by Honorable France, the impact of | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
the cut will mean that additional services such as special as crime | :02:37. | :02:45. | |
prevention, shut that having support, -- shocked housing, and | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
Tennessee supports games for attendance who are vulnerable and | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
often living in deprived areas, and require the active support is going | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
to be cut. The government housing bill in close matches to encourage | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
and develop them a development on Brownfield sites. Any new | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
developments on the sites have to be fitted with more expensive | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
foundation, and sufficient safeguards to protect against | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
letting. And this means that the cost of having Association for any | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
replacement housing is 30% higher than regular cost. At this domain to | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
this the low property values, means accessing funding is nearly | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
impossible. What is the government planning to make extra funding | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
available to housing associations, which need to make up these | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
additional cost to developers? Because if not, our town will see a | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
decrease and development housing as a direct result of the measures than | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
this bill. I like to draw the House of the attention to my entry in the | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
register of members interests. It is a pleasure to follow the Honorable | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
member from Grimsby. I applied her passion for this bill and her | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
constituents, but I suspect there are announces bill will be somewhat | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
different. I welcome this bill. There are economical... For. It has | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
wide ranging and. Does government has rightly identified productivity | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
as the challenge of our time and have the ammo been there becoming | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
one of the richest, by 2030. And a major piece of sobbing this | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
productivity puzzle is the fact that we need to build more homes that | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
people can afford to live in. I welcome this governments commitment | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
to building long homes by 2020, and with her from all sides of the House | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
that people want to own their own homes and that 86% of our fellow | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
admits Martin... Our population is ageing, growing more people, more | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
people are living on their own. If we want people to be able to own a | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
home of the home, it is vital that we build more. This is a very wide | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
bill. I know there are other members who wish to speak. So I will limit | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
my speech. Particular the air is related to Brownfield sites. Reform | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
of the planet system was relevant to. This has been rehearsed over the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
last few hours which we have been speaking. But what happened in the | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
previous Parliament was very welcome. Before I came to display, I | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
practiced at property Lord is my home families property business for | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
15 years. I have seen first-hand the delays that we can have. The logjams | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
that are put in the system to plumbing departments -- planning | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
departments. Mr Deputy Speaker, I am in no way advocating a no holds bar | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
to build anywhere planning approach. The provisions that there will | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
planning in this bill am hyping babbled have a good between | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
realising that we have to have local planning, even than to make a good | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
level, but there are cases where central government needs to break | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
through the break logjams in the system. We on the places where local | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
authorities do not have their local plan in place. They might not have | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
agreed on a plan for years. They are often... In some councils have local | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
plants which are up to 20 years old, and they do not take into account | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
the changing demographics of an area. It is absolutely essential | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
that we rectify the situation, and I welcome the powers and abilities | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
Secretary of State can ask that, asked that the agreement of the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
plan. I do hope that when he is is talkative and said, that the | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
revelations... The closest of which a particular interest to me a | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
hundred to 103, which relate to Brownfield sites. Because of our | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
passion lies on building on Brownfield sites. Both residential | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
and commercial properties. This is a difficult process. All of us have | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
recognised that it is a lot more expensive for developers to | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
decontaminate and land, rather than building on the Greenfields. I think | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
my friend for giving way. Will see us have given her experience in an | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
era, that development of Brownfield... Because of the ability | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
to build which minimizes the decontamination. This is done a | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
great way driving productivity into the country, particularly I think it | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
depends on the land. The behind the lady spoke before. I do not think to | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
have a 1-size-fits-all, because they depend on the nature of the land, | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
but S. There is a great moral imperative to do this. I have had | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
the great fortune... Mr Deputy Speaker will groove me that I | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
represent part of the most beautiful county of our country, Lanchester. | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
Industrial towns lie adjacent to stunning countryside. We want to | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
protect the green spaces. I know from personal experience that it can | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
be done. As I have said, it can be expensive and time-consuming. It | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
depends on what the nature of the contamination was and what and what | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
is coming next afterwards. But there are now more and more specialist | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
companies coming down the line with it and expertise in this area, which | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
means that costs have come down and will continue to do so. Deceived our | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
has estimated that over a million homes can be built on Brownfield | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
sites in English. This will mean that not only is our green belt | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
protected, but seeing as the land has already been developed, there | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
will be at least some infrastructure already in place. The clauses | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
dealing with the system of permission and principle, with | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
similar to the .Mac system and US, what also the wellness ice prophesy. | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
And particularly welcome the requirement of a local planning | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
authorities to have a statutory register of land. Fisher make it | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
easier for builders to identify the Brownfield sites and also give | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
people, local people a sense of ownership. And reassurance that | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
while homes are being locally, the beautiful green spaces are being | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
protected. You'll be interesting to hear from the Minister if he agrees | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
with the of the student government restitution, with the probe measures | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
that should be a Brownfield map, and I think the Honorable member | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
referred to this. To Brownfield map which includes privately owned | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
Brownfield sites. Is absolutely incumbent on us to speed up | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
house-building and after Everyone people to own their homes and for | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
the price of a home in this country to go down, I believe that the | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
ambitious aims in this bill contained that, and I will be | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
supported it and it makes his progress in this place. I represent | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
an inner London constituency. We have very little green space. Would | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
love a little bit that we have. But frankly I love development sites are | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
Brownfield sites. And despite the coffee bars, squares, we have the | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
third worst child poverty statistics in the whole country. Have a gap | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
between rich and poor is getting worse. Many of our problems arise | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
from housing and I have to say that we must begin with the real word in | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
my constituency, with a still have my constituency? Know it won't. It | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
damages the supply of affordable homes across the country, and it | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
really damages the supply of affordable homes and Islington. It | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
is a very. Much can be said about abortion local authorities to sell | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
the higher value homes, I have a great deal to say about that. But in | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
the time available, I wanted a. I have much to say about the effects | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
of the policy, ... But nevertheless, I want to focus on a couple of | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
issues. The government act directly why should higher earning the liver | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
and social housing and subsidized rent. The same question presumably | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
can be ask, why should hire and his by? The answer is that without | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
subsidy, was sort, if I hunted the mind household owning more than | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
?40,000 a year, in some areas where social rent is only 50% below will | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
market rent, it will necessarily be impossible. In Islington, where | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
private rent are more than 200% higher than the social rents, this | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
is creating a major problem. Shelter and said that Linda rent need, | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
70,000 to make ends meet. Will happen to a Londoner whom lives in a | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
household where they had income between 40,000 and 70,000? Weapons | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
to that group of people? For example, will detect the site to a | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
constituent of mine who is a single parent of three, she unearthed | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
?32,000 a gift, and her eldest boy to a constituent of mine who is a | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
single parent of three, she unearthed ?32,000 a gift, and her | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
eldest boy is, so he is gone be taking home ?10,000. What would the | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
council due to tell the board? To the board not to worry, because the | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
board not to worry, because they didn't troubled? That diamond party | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
who called himself a party of the people. So what should this family | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
do? Remember, administer, and my constituency we have 90,000 people | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
on the housing waiting list. Secondly... Starter homes designed | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
as a first-time buyers in such a state of at least 20% in the homes | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
must not cost us start of more than 40 -?50,000. How the heaven the | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
reward of my constituency? Police way. In Islington, we build about | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
500 new homes. That is pretty good. Would deny how much they. The big | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
development is about the homes being built at the city basin. A 1 bedroom | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
but, will cost ?860,000. ?860,000, that an appropriate starter home? | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
What is the answer to that? Should we have no starter homes? OSHA would | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
be annoyed this development? Should we put in a subsidy? If this | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
government is to put in a subsidy of at least 20%, then presumably to | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
bring her down below 450,000? This person by the home would get a 50% | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
discount. Albini pretty lucky for them and by the time with a Stella. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
They would make at least ?400,000 profit. I do not criticise a person | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
who would take advantage of that, but it do not have better way to | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
spend money on affordable housing somewhere like Islington, that has | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
90,000 families on the waiting list? And have the worst child poverty | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
statistics in the country? And have the worst child poverty statistics | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
in the country? In can buy house... For a deposit that they cannot yet | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
not a proper centimorgans, the fact is that these people are ready at | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
the top of the list. They are going to be in a position was echoed by | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
AFLAC, so why is it that we are giving them such huge assistance, we | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
have set the huge housing prices? I have to say is measured before a | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
wretched against the reality of those who I represent. If I can just | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
say about the sell-off of housing in my constituency. Housing | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
associations will be forced to sell their housing, as they're going to | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
be an replacement within my constituency, what housing | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
association simply take the money and run, and the building elsewhere? | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
When my local authorities are forced to sell off all new bills, that they | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
are building within the constituency, what will happen | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
there? Can administer state how many associate housing class will be left | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
in Islington and five years' time? Because frankly, the only affordable | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
housing and the only affordable housing and visited for print. | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
Because the prices are so high, no one on average income collision area | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
like mine without the assistance of social happening. We are to have the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
nonsense from the Mayor of London saying that any percent market rent | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
in affordable. It is not affordable. And the proper God that the new | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
planet regulations, with the priority being pushed on these new | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
starter homes... Identify Brownfield sites. That she also agreed, with me | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
that there is a particular... To this? Is there an accent from all | :16:05. | :16:17. | |
three of these, really difficult things, quite honestly... In Nevada | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
that point, and it is a very serious point. We should be getting an | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
answer from the Minister on that. Going back to Brownfields, Everett | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
is going to have affordable housing on these Brownfield sites, it is a | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
certain starter homes that could be up for the people that I have | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
identified. And they must be granted planning permission, how are my | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
local authorities ever going to get the 19,000 families, who are on the | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
waiting list, to any form of affordable homes? No wonder the | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
housing benefit bill is going to continue to go up in London. In the | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
last five years, has gone up from 54 ?3 billion to ?6.1 billion in the | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
last five years of the Coalition government. How much worse is it | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
going to get? Before the government start taking seriously the | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
affordable homes in central London A2B social bread? There is nothing | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
in this bill that will promote social bread housing. Affordable | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
housing for my constituents, from a 40% of my constituents who currently | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
live in social happening. Where would the children go? They were | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
born and brought up in this constituency? They should be able to | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
remain here. It is not fair that this bill is unfair. This bill does | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
not look at the reality of inner London, and two. Iraq to support the | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
bill. Which is to increase the supply of homes in this country. | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
Affordable to buy an affordable to buy an affordable terrain. That is | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
clearly the object of this bill. In doing so, it is building on the last | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Parliament, and sticking to address long-term problems. At the Minister, | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
the Secretary of State point out in the debate, the high point of how | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
building in the last two or three decades was in 1998. The low point | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
was in 2010. The number of people who are homeowners in this country | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
peaked in 2003. To have declined since. The party opposite, ... And | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
was good for the debate today is that they still had no answer today | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
on the problem. On the challenge of a housing array, the local party has | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
absolutely no so solution set out debate could deliver that. Is that a | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
vast, money, -- if, we are welcomed here. As of yet, nothing has been | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
said about a. The child that I believe, and I want to challenge | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
Democrats on the underside of mankind that I have. I support the | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
motion than this bill, we need a revolution in the design and | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
delivery of affordable homes to buy in print in this country. I like to | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
look at the development methods of off-site constructions and that an | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
assembly of homes. Modern form of prefabrication, which we are | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
starting to see. Amherst BJ Elliot, she touched on the project and her | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
constituency, sub that the Minister has visited. I believe this could be | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
a very exciting project for the future. I recently met with... Who | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
designed this concept. Which was launched in March and in September | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
of this year. They can design and build flats that can be rented out | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
at 65% of market rent. Forgiven and that have a bill cost of about | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
?35,000. They can be read how had a weekly rate at about ?150 per week. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
They are well insulated and design. So the heating bill cost, the energy | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
cost for running a flat like this, could be as little as ?10 a week. | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
?10 a month, sire. This is a massively different proposition to | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
many of the costs Association delivering new homes able to buy or | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
rent. In London and across the country. The construction costs are | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
substantially lower as well, and construction times to. The | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
practice, ... From planning applications to the people living in | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
deadlock with an 11 month. Within him what time might be over 30 | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
months for a development build using the normal practices and methods. | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
They assembly time with that vector unit could be within a week, and if | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
it is time for the unit as little as a week as well. This is clearly | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
something that has the ability to deliver very large numbers of | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
properties, and very affordable prices very quickly. It can also | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
utilise a reason to pockets of land, many of which will be owned by local | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
authorities, or by the government, which may not be attractive for | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
commercial developers because of their size. In this case, in a | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
subclass of houses can be built, assembled, still constructed very | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
quickly and there's prior to lead which may be uneconomical to an | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
difficult to construct and four edition of the. One of the things | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
that I'll have to minister to look at... Is tomorrow that we can do the | :21:20. | :21:29. | |
centralizes method of construction for new homes? Could there be | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
further backtracking between the planning system. Could we also look | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
at the use of government land to support these projects to. Because | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
one of the great advances that the off-site manufacture process that I | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
have looked at, that the homes can be brought in very easily, but they | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
can also be moved very well as well. ... They could commit to the | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
construction of 14 years and so a modular homes of this type, which | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
did then could be moved to another location. Happy this is a very | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
exciting concept, and also alongside a very large development. Might take | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
to get the cell to build within that time. But they are just temporary | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
home. They have an active life, all the buildings but the buildings | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
revocation of a normal building. That have an afterlife safety gear | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
and them more visible as well. The purchase price to be as low as 50 or | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
?60,000. That is in London. So this I believe has potential to | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
revolutionise the delivery of affordable homes and something that | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
I believe deserves greater scrutiny. And I like to touch on in a very | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
little time that I have left, and one other aspect of the bill. Which | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
is the proscribed list of Brownfields sites. Wanting thing I | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
would minister is whether the government could give some guidance | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
here to local authorities about the size, with which I'll have existing | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
buildings on them, but its industrial land that is contaminated | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
where there is no requirement to being restored. Could that be | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
included on the proscribed list of Brownfields sites? So lab that I'm | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
currently use now, and do not have an existing buildings on it. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
Committed to minister to give me some guidance on that, I would | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
welcome that. I do support the bill, is their purpose is to | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
Mr Speaker thank you very much. Can I say that I am grateful for the | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
information provided for me to take part in this debate is. New housing | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
sector organisations have asked much experience it is important that we | :23:59. | :24:07. | |
pay good attention to this. It would be fair to say, there are concerns | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
that the housing bill is currently drafted with unintentionally | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
producing the supply for housing. Firstly however I want to settle the | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
context of the impacts of families, families are unable to buy or accept | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
housing and they have no option but to live in the private printing | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
section. The private printing section is not fully fit for | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
purpose, there needs to be reform. The private printing sector -- | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
renting is not fit for students. One and four families are renting | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
privately. Sadly, landlords are exploiting this situation and | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
renting out properties that are not in good condition. Secondly, private | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
printers are paying too much and increasingly worse condition. They | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
are spending much more on their rent and mortgage. 32% for social tenant. | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
30% of private printer properties and inkling would fail the | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
government home standard compared to home occupiers. They are desperate | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
enough to accept poor condition. If the tenants do complained, local | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
authorities not always have the power resource to take action. The | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
authority and the bill should crack down and more should be done. | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
Renting out properties to families in poor conditions will not be | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
tolerated. These simple message, stop exploiting peoples | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
vulnerability. I am very grateful to my honourable friend. Would he | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
accept also that a small number of those private landlords, and my | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
constituency and I am sure in his, are using the private printing | :26:20. | :26:29. | |
sector to promote crime? I think all sorts of issues began to come out of | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
the woodwork when we talk about these specific issues. I think the | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
government has to look carefully at this as well. Banning landlords from | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
a renting property is one thing but it should be made in criminal | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
offence. There is a common sense approach that should protect renters | :26:55. | :27:06. | |
and these conditions. I am aware of the fire deaths and injuries on | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
victims and their families. And its 2013 and 2000 1449 deaths were | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
caused by electrical fires and homes. That isn't increased from the | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
previous year figures. I think the government has in opportunity to | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
bring that dreadful statistic of death down. -- that is and increase. | :27:29. | :27:42. | |
Private landlord should be cutting out these and that should have | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
carbon monoxide checks. Behind every statistic there is a person, family, | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
and life. They have encountered dangers and problems and their flat. | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
One lady found that the property wasn't so dangerous she was at risk | :28:01. | :28:08. | |
of electrocution. She said that she put her foot through the floorboard | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
and her landlord said to put plywood on top of it. She has water coming | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
in through the electric fan every time it rains. The ceiling around | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
the van was perishing and there was leagues around the kitchen sink from | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
neighbouring properties. It was unambiguously dangerous. This brings | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
me to my fourth point. With almost half of printers and say they had | :28:40. | :28:48. | |
these issues we need to empower them to take action against landlords who | :28:49. | :28:56. | |
are renting out unfit property is. Thousands of people. My honourable | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
friend the Member for rest Mr North is seeking to reform the human | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
habitation requirement. If a bill does not succeed, the housing and | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
planning bill is a great opportunity to bring in this crucial reform. And | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
landlord will be required to ensure that properties are fit for human | :29:22. | :29:29. | |
habitation. The current system, for housing, health, and safety set out | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
what condition a property should be. And what the responsibility of | :29:36. | :29:45. | |
the landlord is. They have to take the complaints and take appropriate | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
action. There are three measures the government should and could take. | :29:52. | :29:57. | |
Making sure that the landlords require safety checks. Many of them | :29:58. | :30:05. | |
do this. All private properties should be fit for human habitation. | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
That is a dreadful demand in the 21st-century. Thirdly, and enhancing | :30:12. | :30:24. | |
rate repayment. Can I say, some of the comments I have heard today | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
about Brownfield sites. My constituency, you could draw a line | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
around it. That would be a brown field site. The idea that she would | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
have a slab of concrete, and you could put a house on it would | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
horrify most of the people. It is not just about the industrial | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
heritage, it is about having a lot of houses built in a gerrymandered | :30:48. | :30:54. | |
fashion and that the foundation was the cause of contamination. Let's | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
not just have this sort of notion that you can solve problems with a | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
slab of concrete. You cannot. We have to cut it down to five minutes. | :31:05. | :31:11. | |
Before we go any farther can I draw the house attention to my interest. | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
I have a shareholding in a small communications company which I set | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
up before I was elected to this place. It gives advice to developers | :31:21. | :31:27. | |
and in some case opposition on how it is that they should do public | :31:28. | :31:34. | |
consultation as well. Can I also take this opportunity to pay tribute | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
to the ministers who are sitting on the front the bench for coming to my | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
constituency during last year. They met some constituents of the neck of | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
the joys of mine who are having some difficulties with their development. | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
I am also chairman of both parties parliamentary group, and awful | :31:56. | :32:05. | |
private printing sector. They are undertake inquiry into the quality | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
of design. The private printing is holding one on energy efficiency. I | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
will also point out that I am one of those very few who represents a | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
total urban inner-city constituencies. I very much welcomed | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
the government target to build many homes over the next five years. But | :32:29. | :32:36. | |
to deliver this, we need to have electricians and speedier planning | :32:37. | :32:44. | |
system as well. This means, better consultation, and forcing developers | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
to build new homes once they have been granted very quickly. They | :32:48. | :33:02. | |
should have to pay business rates on that site as well after six months. | :33:03. | :33:11. | |
A number of projects failed to get permission. Because they do not have | :33:12. | :33:18. | |
the local community support in order to do it. We need to have more | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
master planning development as well. Local communities I believe. I am | :33:24. | :33:30. | |
also a champion of what we are doing. We will have and acquiring | :33:31. | :33:39. | |
into the quality of design. I have a number of constituents who have | :33:40. | :33:41. | |
problems with their new build homes. Buying your first home is | :33:42. | :33:49. | |
probably the largest investment that you make any your life. It is your | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
first run on the housing ladder. When a doing so, you expect your | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
home to be in tip top condition. You expect authorities to have checked | :34:05. | :34:07. | |
it and have ensured that there are no problems for a significant amount | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
of time. You will not think that you should have it surveyed before you | :34:13. | :34:17. | |
hand over cash. You expect the local council to do their job. And madchen | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
after a few months or years, that you have some of. -- imagine. You | :34:23. | :34:34. | |
certainly do not aspect to have many problems as some of my position as | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
these have. I had been appalled at the brownstones that already | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
appearing the outside walls of these new homes. Earlier today, I met with | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
the R I B a who want to have a of these so that people pool live have | :34:52. | :35:00. | |
a certain amount of space. I was very made aware of the importance of | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
children having space to do homework rather than having to share a | :35:06. | :35:08. | |
kitchen diner with their siblings as well. I talked about the private | :35:09. | :35:14. | |
printing sector. What is very important is that the private | :35:15. | :35:18. | |
renting sector has good qualities housing. That is what I want. This | :35:19. | :35:31. | |
ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion is very much about making sure that | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
we have quality homes for today that are suitable and will not become | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
slums for the future. We have already heard from members on this | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
side of the house of the negative impact of social housing and the | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
illogical nature of these proposals. The point of overall made. I suspect | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
there will on the other side that will worry about the dangers of | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
head. With the government publishes bill, they said they wanted to | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
transform generation rate into generation by. They are creating | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
generation get by. Young people are struggling to find a home of their | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
own. They are having to rely on their parents. It is bad for the | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
young people and is putting huge strains on families. Some of these | :36:21. | :36:25. | |
proposals do make good quickfix headlines. The long-term effects | :36:26. | :36:40. | |
will do damage to... There is not only a completely undercut of | :36:41. | :36:42. | |
principal financing and the ability of councils and new housing, it is a | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
disgrace for programme promises to boot. Councils have spent years | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
piloting and working up a long-term strategy to put their housing | :36:55. | :36:56. | |
finances on a strong sustainable footing. I know because I helped | :36:57. | :37:04. | |
persuade them when they were housing ministers over a decade ago. It took | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
years to come dissertation because housing finance has climaxed. It was | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
finally settled and enable Cambridge to develop a business plan | :37:16. | :37:17. | |
stretching over three decades to provide that management services, | :37:18. | :37:24. | |
maintain a decent condition, and invest in affordable housing. This | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
bill, combined hard work. They are violating what will be considered | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
and what is not welcome when the Minister comes up with some | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
exhalation for this. They bought out their housing debt on the base of | :37:41. | :37:47. | |
forward planning. It is now in ruins because of irresponsible change of | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
policy that puts this in jeopardy. It is worth noting rather it is | :37:53. | :38:04. | |
stunned environmental investors about policy changes, or investment | :38:05. | :38:09. | |
institutions. This government the unpredictable actions are tearing up | :38:10. | :38:12. | |
the rule book and leaving budgets and promises in brewing the. -- and | :38:13. | :38:17. | |
over these proposals were lost. This bill | :38:18. | :38:33. | |
means that the financial rejection further city will go into deficit. | :38:34. | :38:40. | |
What does it tell us about the governments commitment to localism? | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
To them localism seems to be you do what you are told even if we agreed | :38:46. | :38:48. | |
something completely different last year. The government should be | :38:49. | :38:55. | |
hammering walls and helping local authority bill of the homes that are | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
so desperately needed in this country. That the finish on another | :39:01. | :39:07. | |
note, the proposal is as about as a wrong-headed as any other policy. | :39:08. | :39:14. | |
Ask any housing officer and they would tell you the same. What we | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
need on mixed communities, that is really hard to achieve. What is his | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
proposal Duke smacked it makes it harder. States and my city have the | :39:22. | :39:28. | |
committee strengthened by wonderful hard-working people. I do not know | :39:29. | :39:36. | |
how much they earned, nor do the Council. But some households will | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
certainly happen income of ?30,000. I would pay then at say they are ... | :39:42. | :39:54. | |
What a disastrous policy. What about the people that have put in extra | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
hours, they are punished for doing more. This government is the enemy | :39:59. | :40:06. | |
of aspiration. Mr Deputy Speaker, think about it. I sincerely hope the | :40:07. | :40:14. | |
government rethinks and goes back to the drawing board on the housing | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
policy. Of course, my hopes are not high. This is a part of a wider set | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
of a wider set of all rotten proposals. Reform. It is broken | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
promises, for a way to government, and vandalism. Thank you Mr Deputy | :40:31. | :40:48. | |
Speaker. I was pleased to hear the Secretary of State to speak about | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
opportunities. Without affordable decent quality housing, other | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
opportunities mean little. There is nothing more natural than peoples | :41:03. | :41:09. | |
aspirations to be able to alter, provide a home of for themselves and | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
families. That is why it is so important for my constituents and | :41:15. | :41:23. | |
that the government meets its promise of homes by 2020. This is | :41:24. | :41:29. | |
one nation built, it will help to increase supply while recognising | :41:30. | :41:31. | |
the importance of our local environment. It will help to bring | :41:32. | :41:39. | |
the possibility of homeownership to our constituents. It will help to | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
restore equity and fairness to equity and planning systems. Like | :41:45. | :41:51. | |
many honourable members, my constituency has the most | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
development over the last 30 years. Situated on the border of | :41:56. | :42:02. | |
Staffordshire, there is always a risk of more demand for housing | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
meaning more development into our area. That must be resisted. We must | :42:08. | :42:15. | |
also resist the temptation to build on existing gardens as previous | :42:16. | :42:22. | |
government has done. And static, key challenges facing us is how we bring | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
Brownfield land into use. Bringing that land into use, as ministers | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
will know is a core part of the proposal for the combined authority. | :42:37. | :42:44. | |
More than 1600 acres of Brownfield land in the West Midlands. That will | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
go a long way to meeting the extra housing capacity that our | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
communities need. This bill will simplify the process of identifying | :42:55. | :42:59. | |
and using the Brownfield sites. Alongside the ?10 million available | :43:00. | :43:05. | |
for councils to bring Florida, Brownfield sites to build these new | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
starter homes and the regeneration package. It will increase supply, | :43:10. | :43:20. | |
and will safeguard our green belt. Most honourable members will | :43:21. | :43:22. | |
remember the joy of the first time they picked up keys to their home. | :43:23. | :43:30. | |
Hearing the lock turning and the door for the first time and making | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
the plays their own. Why should our constituents feel the same way? This | :43:36. | :43:45. | |
bill is part of a wide package to promote homeownership and make it | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
more accessible. Brother for young people looking to buy their first | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
home or social tenants. Or helping people turn this into payments for | :43:57. | :44:06. | |
their home. This bill, will help to get bricks help to release of the | :44:07. | :44:12. | |
supply and increase the housing community. It is a bill that helps | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
the government to meet its aspirations to meet the country | :44:18. | :44:23. | |
needs. Including starter home. But most importantly of all it is a bill | :44:24. | :44:27. | |
that helps to realise the aspirations of millions of people up | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
and down our country to own a home of their own. I am proud to support | :44:32. | :44:41. | |
it this evening. Thank you very much. We are all agreed in this | :44:42. | :44:48. | |
House that there is a housing crisis and London a. House prices are | :44:49. | :44:56. | |
skyrocketing. Not just in real terms but in comparison to earning. The | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
median house price is increasing for .83 and 19 97 to 11.86 and 2013. It | :45:03. | :45:14. | |
is not difficult to see why young pieces to be my people and kings | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
than homeownership is not a dream that is deferred but it will be | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
denied. We want young people to remain and London as a place to live | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
not just a place to commute into for work. Solutions to this housing | :45:28. | :45:34. | |
crisis, there is no dispute about this, was to build a significantly | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
more house, and this bill today provides starter homes massively | :45:41. | :45:46. | |
increasing homeownership. It is fair to observe as the members opposite | :45:47. | :45:49. | |
and members on this site have, not everyone will be able to afford | :45:50. | :45:54. | |
starter home. That is why this bill is not in all encompassing solution | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
to the housing crisis. Starting homes have to be seen as a mix of | :45:59. | :46:05. | |
new schemes such as shared ownership and generation, something that we | :46:06. | :46:08. | |
are embarking on and Kingston at the moment. The question really is where | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
are we going to build all of these houses? I am pleased that this bill | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
helps local authorities by the divine Brownfield sites. But in | :46:18. | :46:25. | |
addition to that, the work with the London land Commissioner, they will | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
identify publicly owned land and London. It saddens me, that the Mac | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
to go around the constituency and going past this used publicly owned | :46:36. | :46:42. | |
land and they are crying out for affordable housing and land for | :46:43. | :46:45. | |
preschools. It is about time that the government goes out of its way | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
and releases this land that is lying they are. There is a concern that | :46:51. | :47:00. | |
this bill leads to a reduction of affordable houses and London. That | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
is why I have signed the amendment proposed by my honourable friend for | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
Richmond Park and North Kingston, my constituency neighbour and the next | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
mayor of London to and sure that this does not have been. This | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
amendment will place a duty on the Secretary of State and the mayor | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
working with local housing authorities to achieve at least a 2 | :47:24. | :47:29. | |
Gbits of of the affordable housing. -- two units. We must ensure, that | :47:30. | :47:37. | |
at least two houses are built in place. That is why I am pleased to | :47:38. | :47:46. | |
sign of the members amendment. There is another amendment tabled to this | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
bill which I also wish to speak to. That is a liberal Democrat | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
amendment. The party that propels it is not here now. I rejected that | :47:56. | :48:08. | |
amendment. Take the local of therapy that my constituency sets and. It is | :48:09. | :48:16. | |
in that has one of the worst records for house building and London. It | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
has one of the worst records for affordable house building. The | :48:21. | :48:28. | |
leader and the leader and a 2014 said that hindsight is a wonderful | :48:29. | :48:33. | |
thing. Well, I think that is a shameful response for the 6000 | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
people on the waiting list and Kingston for housing. A shameful | :48:39. | :48:41. | |
response for the people that have grown up or went to my constituency | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
for university and can no longer afford to live there. It is typical | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
of a party that is so quick to criticise but is so slow to accept | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
criticism. Finally, what the government says it is to release | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
homeownership it is inevitable that there will be a large number of | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
people who will need to rent. That is why I very much support of the | :49:06. | :49:10. | |
governments intention of creating a rolled landlord database. I | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
encourage devolution of that database and the case of that | :49:17. | :49:27. | |
database. I would like also to see the government consider and detail, | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
the proposal for the member to actually have a database for all | :49:35. | :49:42. | |
landlords and all... Thank you very much. The government is right to be | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
planning to build all these new homes by 2020. They are also right | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
to be seeking to speed up the planning system. Building 1 million | :49:56. | :50:02. | |
new homes is ambitious. It will be a challenge. It is vital that the | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
government use all of the resources that is at their disposal. The | :50:07. | :50:15. | |
social sector were the councils of housing associations have a vital | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
role to play, it is also important not to forget UK social funds. They | :50:20. | :50:27. | |
have and increasingly important role to play and it is important that the | :50:28. | :50:30. | |
government provides them with the framework to ensure that they can | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
play this. It is very important to support people and their aspiration | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
to own their own home. There has been demographic changes in the past | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
30 years which means that not everyone wants to buy their own | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
home. These charts shows that 37% that people do not buy their own | :50:51. | :50:59. | |
home. This means that the sector has a very important role to play and | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
maximizing the amount of the Brownfield land that is | :51:05. | :51:11. | |
redeveloped. Regenerating areas and cities and of revitalizing our high | :51:12. | :51:13. | |
streets. How expensive it is to read a | :51:14. | :51:23. | |
Brownfields sites so it can be above one and a half million pounds per | :51:24. | :51:33. | |
hectare. I think our friends into vector. What I'll say, having | :51:34. | :51:39. | |
been... For 20 years, the cost of redevelopment does vary | :51:40. | :51:50. | |
significantly... The private sector reinvestment in urban areas has | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
played a role into regenerating hilum in New York, and there's no | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
reason why it cannot play a role here in the UK. It is being done in | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
Manchester, where the city Council formed a role here in the UK. It is | :52:03. | :52:05. | |
being done in Manchester, where the city Council appointed one big | :52:06. | :52:07. | |
account partnership with the private sector to build 6000 homes, mostly | :52:08. | :52:11. | |
for a tinge of period. It is estimated, Mr Speaker, that | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
long-term capital at the order of 50 billion million pounds can be | :52:16. | :52:23. | |
subtracted... However, such capital, if we don't have the right | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
policy so that the stones, that capital will go elsewhere. To Tokyo, | :52:28. | :52:35. | |
Berlin, ... There are two aspects of distilled that they new need to be | :52:36. | :52:37. | |
looked at closely to ensure that they do not prevent private from | :52:38. | :52:42. | |
realising its full potential. Firstly, there is a concern that the | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
requirements to include starter homes is for sale and all developers | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
can seriously impact. Al Aqsa government to grant an exemption for | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
this requirement. There is a concern that the requirement to deliver | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
starter homes as part of larger schemes could damage investment in | :53:03. | :53:05. | |
the private rented sector, as fragmented sites must list to | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
investors. Secondly, the permission and principle in Clause 102 is to be | :53:11. | :53:17. | |
welcomed. It is important to ensure that local communities continue to | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
have a say in decisions that will affect them and the need for | :53:22. | :53:25. | |
high-quality designs must not be overlooked. At present, it is | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
proposed in principle that is only available to residential | :53:31. | :53:32. | |
development. While this is a good start, there should be recognition | :53:33. | :53:36. | |
that on their own homes are not enough. Productivity need a mix of | :53:37. | :53:42. | |
activities if they are to be accessed as. In order to create | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
places where people want to live, there is also a need for places for | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
them to work, rest, and play. Planning policy must reflect this if | :53:53. | :53:54. | |
we wish to avoid the mistakes of the past. Went too often, housing | :53:55. | :54:00. | |
development has taken place in a vacuum, the board of amenities, | :54:01. | :54:07. | |
facilities, and infrastructure. In summary, the government ought to be | :54:08. | :54:10. | |
commended for the ambition, both on a wide range of issue that they are | :54:11. | :54:15. | |
covering in this field, and the target of 1 million homes. Many sets | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
targets had been set over the years. And they have been missed. To ensure | :54:20. | :54:24. | |
that this is not another one followed by the wayside, you will be | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
necessary to use all the tools in the box. This means that | :54:29. | :54:31. | |
institutional private rented sector must be given every encouragement to | :54:32. | :54:39. | |
work alongside the owner, I could hire and direct the sectors. You. | :54:40. | :54:49. | |
Collected on the house and this attention to the members interests. | :54:50. | :54:53. | |
I am delighted to speak in support of the bill. Which makes housing a | :54:54. | :54:58. | |
key priority for this government. Interested to read also that the | :54:59. | :55:00. | |
national infrastructure commission also made out it is a key priority. | :55:01. | :55:08. | |
Housing is infrastructure. There are physical structures that we need for | :55:09. | :55:11. | |
operation of our society and our economy. But we are not building | :55:12. | :55:17. | |
enough. Hundred 40,000 homes a year. We need another 70,000 homes a year. | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
This to take issue with the shadow minister's numbered, he thinks that | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
there is a decline. The accident is it a 58% increase in the number of | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
new stars, annually since 2008. Starts is the key measure. Starts is | :55:34. | :55:39. | |
the key measure. Also the ministers commitment to the deliberate when we | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
homes by 2020, which will have a use direct in an direct economic | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
benefit. But also there is a greater prize. 25% of all people who live in | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
poverty do so due to housing costs. And a third of those to live in a | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
private rented sector. We have an opportunity to look 3 million people | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
out of poverty. And give them the pride, and security of owning or | :56:07. | :56:11. | |
renting a home of their own. But we need to deal with two questions. Who | :56:12. | :56:16. | |
is going to build these homes and were and we will rebuild? For the | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
larger developers, building enough homes to build a return for the | :56:23. | :56:31. | |
shareholders,... Also local authorities and housing | :56:32. | :56:35. | |
associations. Small and medium-size house builders used to build 100,000 | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
homes a year in this country. Now, they build 18,000 homes. 62% of SMB | :56:41. | :56:47. | |
house builders say finance is their principal concern in their ambition | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
to build more homes. The banks are virtually closed for lending to a | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
small and medium-sized elements. The government has tried... But do we | :56:58. | :57:06. | |
need to go further. Perhaps with the help to build a fund to help SMEs | :57:07. | :57:12. | |
get back into the market. Also local authorities and local housing | :57:13. | :57:14. | |
associations use to build hundred thousand homes a year, currently | :57:15. | :57:19. | |
around 25,000 homes a year. I do believe they extension of Right to | :57:20. | :57:30. | |
Buy will deliver more homes. So... That's a ludicrous the number of | :57:31. | :57:33. | |
homes sold on delivered by 30,000 a year for the next five years. Is | :57:34. | :57:40. | |
having his infrastructure, ?100 billion we are committed to | :57:41. | :57:45. | |
infrastructure by 2020 it we had a small portion of that for house | :57:46. | :57:49. | |
building could deliver at 220,000 new homes that are small 24 5 | :57:50. | :57:58. | |
billion grant annually. And what and where were we build the? Idea of the | :57:59. | :58:08. | |
government de Leon Brownfield lands. But we cannot build it all I'm | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
Brownfield lands. Brownfield is complex, and requires remediation, | :58:14. | :58:17. | |
access difficulties, and it is expensive. We also need to reform | :58:18. | :58:24. | |
the planning process which is so slow and often than to resolve. And | :58:25. | :58:27. | |
a move toward the compulsory local plans by 2017 and requiring local | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
authorities to make more timely and appropriate decisions is absolutely | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
right. As is the perversion and principle for both Brownfield sites | :58:39. | :58:42. | |
allocated to local plant and a member of plan. When the builders to | :58:43. | :58:48. | |
make local and national leaves and Seinfeld can be proud of and improve | :58:49. | :58:54. | |
lives for those who live there. I join colleagues and John to house | :58:55. | :59:00. | |
visits into my register of members interest. I would like to very much | :59:01. | :59:03. | |
welcome this bill, which comes in the finest traditions of the site of | :59:04. | :59:09. | |
the House. Him back to the days of Harold... Advocate is very telling | :59:10. | :59:13. | |
that the last five or six speeches that we have heard have come from | :59:14. | :59:19. | |
the conservative benches. The Labour benches have sent to run out this | :59:20. | :59:24. | |
thing a while ago. The demographic benches also before that. Of course, | :59:25. | :59:32. | |
the reason we faced this housing problem in this country is that our | :59:33. | :59:36. | |
population is growing so rapidly. At a rate of 4008 year, mostly driven | :59:37. | :59:42. | |
by immigration. And then of course would means we need to build a | :59:43. | :59:45. | |
couple more thousand pounds a year simply to keep pace with population | :59:46. | :59:51. | |
growth. The shadow housing minister, made some disparaging comments at | :59:52. | :59:55. | |
the beginning of the debate about the governments record. I would like | :59:56. | :59:57. | |
to say that the governments record in this area is a fine one. Indeed, | :59:58. | :00:05. | |
during the last year when the Member for one word one across the United | :00:06. | :00:11. | |
Kingdom, only 120,000 housing units were started. In the last year, that | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
had increased 265,000 units. An increase of nearly 50%, which the | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
government can be proud of. And of course, my honourable friend, the | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Member for Oxford, has delivered 94,000 affordable homes and his | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
majority. Outstripping his predecessor. It is a record that | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
would be proud of. I think the measured in this belt on planning | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
will enable the government to go even further. By making sure goals | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
and 5% of authorities who have not delivered and local plan will do so. | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
To allow developers to the minor application, as well as made | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
application to go straight to the punishment if they have a poor | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
performance by requiring 90% a Brownfield land to have an outline | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
planning application by 2020. All of those things, was resupplied. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Members of those things, was resupplied. Members opposites both | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
about portability. And they work right right to do so. There is a | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
problem. And a prominent in London and across the UK. Dissolution is to | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
build more houses. It is basic economics. This bill has at its | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
heart the intention to build more houses. Highlight as a member of | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
Parliament I welcome the work of the London leg commission. -- land | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
commission. And their intention is to match the achievements of the | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
PLA, 98% of the land has been brought for for development. And the | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
London land commission and to do the same the thing with other | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
public-sector led, included the six-time acres of land owned by | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
transport for London. Out asked to to consider going further and | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
allowing the London land commission to have more proactive powers to | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
bring forward land for development, rather than identify at it. I know | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
Mr Speaker that for me to speak out -- sit down, I'll briefly endorsed | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
the social housing Right to Buy constant. Homeownership is a | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
fundamentally good thing. And enables people to have a stake in | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
our society, and to invest in their own homes. And allows them to | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
prosper as house values go up. I think is what is proposed is they | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
did one. Social housing providers have committed to replacing big | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
units sold on a one-to-one basis. This idea that social housing will | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
get abroad it is simply untrue. And the total stock will increase. | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
Because the social housing has been sold was a bit excessive. I will | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
conclude that saying this is a bill that would increase the supply of | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
housing, it will increase homeownership, and I encourage all | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
members to support it this evening. Thank you. I think it has been a | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
very interesting debate on the pricing and funding bill -- having a | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
money bill. I think we can see clearly how hard it housing is for | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
members. Fortier back took part in this debate. My members opposite, | :03:40. | :03:54. | |
from... Kensington, Devonport, Kingston and Surbiton, put forward | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
outside a number of interesting suggestions to make the proposals on | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the private rented sector is taught homes in the bill more effective. | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
And to create some of the more centralised aspects of the bill, and | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
to improve the quality of housing and is built. I hope we hear more | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
from them and committee. Not surprisingly, given this severity of | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
the housing crisis in London, we heard from a number of London MPs. | :04:17. | :04:29. | |
Buy-back of raise their concerns about measures in the bill that will | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
deliver more affordable homes. And will further socially second-grade | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
communities and leads to many Londoners in high-cost, private | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
rented housing with little hope of ever owning a home in the area in | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
which they wish to live. And number of members, including those from | :04:47. | :05:01. | |
Sheffield, Birmingham, that... Redcar, Grimsley, Cambridge provided | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
a very effective challenge to the member from Uxbridge. Housing | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
problems only exist in London. They spoke of strongly on behalf of their | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
constituencies. That more good quality, genuinely affordable | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
housing to my pricing properly planned mixed communities based on | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
local decision-making is needed everywhere. And that the bill | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
represents an attack on social housing and does little to make home | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
ownership a reality for many people on low and middle incomes. As | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
members across the House are well aware, we are facing a housing | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
crisis in this country. We have the lowest level of... Since the 1920s. | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
Incompletions have followed off the cliff edge since 2010. Housing | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
benefit bill is ever-increasing. Have seen five years of failure from | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
the government, and on the basis of this bill, I fear that we are glad | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
to see five more. Homeownership has fallen every year since 2010, the | :06:08. | :06:20. | |
convent by more than 200,000. Between 1997-2010, we build almost 2 | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
million homes. As my right honourable friend pointed out | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
earlier, they give at the low stone still in 2009, at 125,000 homes to. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
And that is still higher than the year with the highest number of | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
homes built under the Tories 2013, with just 120,000 completion. | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Masher, the doors bill affordable homes for over two decades. Less | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
than 11,000 homes social print, compared to 33,000... Masher office. | :06:53. | :07:04. | |
Because of their ever-increasing rate. And it is the same old Tory | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
story. At 36% increase in homelessness, and a massive increase | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
in... I am sorry, I will not give way. We have a a time. On the side | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
of the chamber, we at least recognise the scale of the task at | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
hand. , Ray sell the House building in England have only had about half | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
the level of leather needed to make existing and anticipated demand. We | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
need to deliver an average of 240-240,000 homes, of which 78,000 | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
must be in the social sector to meet housing needs. This is a very long | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
way from where we are at present and measures in this little to address | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
the task at hand. Looking at the Right to Buy, labour is not against | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
measures that would increase access to homeownership. But we have always | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
said that the extension of the Right to Buy housing associations funded | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
by... For sale for affordable homes is unworkable and broad. It would | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
lead to a severe and irreversible loss of affordable homes. At a time | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
when they're most needed, because there is no plan for a genuine 121, | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
like for like replacement. According to figures estimated by a | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
sheltered, 19,000 Council homes could be sold by 2020, with a | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
further hundred 30,000 have risked. In fact, since 2012, only one | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
aligned Council homes sold onto existing Right to Buy has been | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
replaced topic so we can only estimate that the loss of social | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
event at stock will be substantial. ... And the Right to Buy policies, | :08:59. | :09:08. | |
these many questions are answered who was the one for 30 million | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
tenants will actually get the right to as promised. To do of course also | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
welcome the principal behind starter homes, aligned those who can do so | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
to climb onto the property ladder. However, they are not and should not | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
be a substitute for Glover and, affordable housing. The proposals in | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
the bill to change the planning obligations under section 106, to | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
prioritise the delivery of starter homes means they will simply replace | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
the building of affordable rented housing. Data for the problem with | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
the starter home proposal. Simply, starter homes unaffordable for | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
many, even by the Chancellor's on status. A family living in the | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
Chancellor's on status. , living in intensive new minimum wage of nine | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
points in 2020, when I be able to afford a starter home and 98% of the | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
country. To pay to stay measures to charge higher prints to some tenants | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
is also extremely problematic. The very ideas that household income of | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
30,000 or 40,000 in London is high is questionable at best, but has the | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
income needed to sustain the basic standard of living... For example, | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
more income being needed for a family with two children than a | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
single person, the proposals are frightening ludicrous. We know from | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
the governments own consultation, that we are not the only people to | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
think so. The governments 2013 consultation unpaid estate, even | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
though with much higher levels, higher her showed produced only 25% | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
in favour of this policy. But also supports measures in the bill to | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
crack down on rogue landlords and leading edges, but they fall short | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
of ensuring that England's 11 million branches have been more | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
secured affordable homes. Was to fight the menace the -- thank the | :11:09. | :11:20. | |
Minister... Streamlined the system and prioritise building come from | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
the lands are to be welcomed. But we have concerns about wider changes to | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
the planning system, and we will raise questions and committee. This | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
bill should be a bill to tackle the crisis base by thousands, a crisis | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
where people cannot afford a home, can barely afford their friends, and | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
in the worst cases are sleeping rough because they simply do not | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
have a home. Instead, this bill is... A smash and grab Stockhausen, | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
and a power still a local authorities and counselling. Onto | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
the last Labour government, homeownership increase is falling | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
now. This bill does nothing to address five years of failure and | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
data. Data does not need to how I single affordable homeowner will be | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
rubella, and frankly I am appalled that this bill, a hundred or six | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
pages, does not mention homelessness wants. We need a bill that would | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
increase the number of homes built across all ten and I urge colleagues | :12:19. | :12:31. | |
to vote for our present amendment. I give apologies now for all the | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
colleagues, so many, 48 was broken today. It was a real indication as | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
to effectively. I was pleased. Having it is indicative of where we | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
are, to know how many members on the side of the House, the fact that the | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
labour Renate Speaker. Which also backs of our strength and our desire | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
and a determination to deliver the homes that our country needs. As we | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
showed by putting home-building and homeownership at the forefront of | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
our manifesto, and the Queen speaks, and in the bill today. We | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
are building to take our country forward, picking up from a legacy | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
left by labour. We have to remember that despite the honourable | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
gentleman plans another, while there were just 88,000 housing starts. | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
That is the basis from which we've had to rebuild. I had high hopes | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
when I started to read the honourable members amendment. | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
Actually started quite well. Unfortunately, it went downhill from | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
there. I do believe we should always start at the beginning. I am | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
delighted that the whole house as things members across the House of | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
support our plans to tackle rogue landlords and letting agents. And | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
they say you should always start negotiating with where you agree. | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Some of the House grants a second reading tonight, I look forward to | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
well donate warm and welcoming words from the committee. Members across | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
the House, have made strong contributions. Outline a strong | :14:07. | :14:17. | |
argument and her passion for making sure that transparency in the | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
leading sector, and the landlords and Council tax forms and indeed | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
making sure that that is brought forward to protect tenants. My | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
honourable friend, the next conservative mayor of London, | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
outlined his plans to make sure that we continue to deliver more homes | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
for London previous Labour mayors, building on work my honourable | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
friend, whose mayor has deliver from London. I look forward to sing the | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
word they will do over the next two week. Commission that would take is | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
for, he is showing the difference between what we're seeing the side. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Who have moaned about this bill and not in a single positive thing about | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
what they would do to the housing market, while our friends on the | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
site exemplified have outlined a positive message for taking the | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
housing market forward. My Honorable friend, showed his absolute passion | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
and noise for delivering homes that we need a seeing a growth in the | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
custom build, sell the sector and outlining the importance and go for | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
for the customers in the home. The Member for Harper, who had been the | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
housing minister, Bradley outlined that local authorities may should | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
have focused on the planning things. Have focused on the planning things. | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Atlantic and that is vital to local door to the inability to deliver on | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
the future of this country. And for the local areas to make sure they | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
are the heartbeat and have to make sure they had a happy and absolute | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
economic part of that, so I give we. I had the greatest concentration... | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
Just across the river. Tonight they have all met at poetry and they are | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
very worried. Will the Minister assured me that co-ops will be | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
exempt from the Right to Buy, and that he will work to make sure they | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
are exempt from the production of rent, which will does destroy | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
co-ops, and thirdly be exempt from paying to stay? This is really | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
important and people are very worried. I will say to her, at times | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
the Right to Buy, co-ops are actually one of the categories were | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
housing associations can exercise discretion not to sell their | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
property to can stop in agreement, the tenants would use new abilities | :16:39. | :16:50. | |
to have this can stop it out also -- and this has. ... My Honorable | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
friend, Bradley outlined and appreciated his comments about the | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
importance of starter homes delivering the aspirations of people | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
in the future and the importance along with other friends and members | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
that the afternoon of making sure that we have a locally led system | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
delivering with local plants. My friend also outlined the important | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
work being done by the London... To make sure that we are delivering | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
gland across London he has also right to point out that it is | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
important that we continue to deliver public land right across the | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
country. To reach and exceed the target, hundred 50,000 homes of | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
public sector land is rightly said in Parliament. We in this Government | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
have a strong record in protecting those in the process at the. We have | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
made... To local authorities to identify and successfully prosecute | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
rogue landlords and letting agents. 40,000 properties have been | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
inspected. It is a shame, therefore, that the honourable | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
gentleman reason for opposing the bill betray a fundamentally | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
misunderstanding of what the people of this country are crying out for. | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
For that I suspect is why we got the result that we had in the general | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
election. I'll not be giving way. 86% of people say that if they had a | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
free choice, they put to buy their own home. His government was elected | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
because we saw the people of this country to evidence that was that we | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
will give him that so. This bill and arrived at the termination. The bill | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
the bill when I help people the home. He is wrong. Limited Vermont | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
remind house of our break it so far. Over 230,000 people have been held | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
that's given home given by a government-backed bank. Ushered the | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
gentleman will want to thank us for the fact that in his own | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
constituency, houses are 57% since 2010. Held to buy schemes have | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
ordered held hundred 20,000 people by their own home. ... 41,000 news | :19:02. | :19:13. | |
share ownership homes have been delivered. Because of this bill, our | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
mission of 200,000 Star homes will become a reality. This bill will | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
enshrine equality and social housing sector. This bill will provide the | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
government, the absolute ability to deliver on the side of aspirational | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
were harking family. Will provide more people opportunities to own | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
their own home. That is more people with financial security, and a | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
secure foundation that homeownership provide. Are pleased to hear many | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
Labour members get support for people try to buy, and how they can | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
prevent there from branch to take that for. Do give this nation the | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
fair housing that and builds on the 260,000 affordable homes built over | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
the course of the last few years. I will give way to the ladies. In the | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
last problem, one of his predecessors promised a one-for-one | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
replacement rabbi to buy homes sold, and the government did not achieve | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
that. I should anyone believe that now the government is going to | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
achieve that? I wish her happy birthday today. And I'll just remind | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
that against Thomas -- they gift from us that we're doing that is no | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
one for one hoping for, and I must do to one London. And I'll use the | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
word of big holes carefully because that is what at the heart of | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
everything that would be. Understanding the importance of a | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
home to people, and the desire to own their own homes. We believe | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
having decisions made locally, we believe that the punisher so should | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
be driven by local people, for local people. That if I want to facilitate | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
speeding and easing neighbourhood planning. That's why we invested 22 | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
and easing neighbourhood planning. That's why we invested why we | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
invested 22 and a half million pounds the moment. This bill will | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
change the way we think about our homes, and the homes of our family. | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
No longer will people be left behind, believing that homeowners | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
agent for another generation. No longer will a social tenet look at | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
the neighbours exercising the Right to Buy thinking why they can't do | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
that. No longer will councils and house builders grapple with the | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
planning system that is too slow and does not deliver the local | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
community. This government was elected on a strong mandate to | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
mention that the home that mentions the third of the work amenities want | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
to mention that the home that mentions the third of the work | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
amenities want them and even government choice, and a government | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
of prosperity. A government of power and today's generation. I commend | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
the government says the Order! Of the question is that the | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
amendment be made a. Say Aye, on the contrary as noes division of! Clear | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
the lobby! Order! The question is that the | :22:20. | :24:51. | |
amendment be made a. Tell us for the nose -- noes and the | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
Aye. The Ayes to the right, 228. The noes | :25:03. | :35:41. | |
to the left left 305. The noes have it. The question isn't that the Bill | :35:42. | :35:55. | |
be now read for a second time, the vision! Clear the lobby! -- the | :35:56. | :38:13. | |
order! The question is that the Bill be now read a second time. Tell us | :38:14. | :38:22. | |
for the Ayes. Tell us for the noes. Order! Order! The Ayes to do right | :38:23. | :47:55. | |
306, the noes to the left at 215. The Ayes to the right 306. The noes | :47:56. | :48:04. | |
to the left, 215. The Ayes had it. The Ayes has it. Unlock! Programme | :48:05. | :48:12. | |
motion to be moved formally. The question is as on the order paper. I | :48:13. | :48:22. | |
think the Ayes have it. The Ayes have it. The money revolution to be | :48:23. | :48:35. | |
moved formally. The vision! Clear the lobby! -- division. | :48:36. | :51:08. | |
The money resolution. Tell us for the Ayes. Tell us for the noes. | :51:09. | :51:15. |