SIR NICHOLAS SOAMES’S QUESTION ON STANDARD OF HOUSING DESIGN

23rd July 2018

Sir Nicholas Soames’s question to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the standard of housing design.

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the number of council houses, and indeed any other houses, being built would be greatly improved if the Government insisted on a far higher standard of design and layout? Will he therefore favour, in planning applications for council houses and all other houses, developers who insist in those plans on the highest possible standards for the design and layout of those houses?

A Chartwell standard, perhaps.

I do agree with a lot of what my right hon. Friend highlights about the importance of design and style to ensuring that we create homes for the future that we can be proud of. This is something that we are considering carefully as we finalise the national planning policy framework. We will publish that shortly, and I hope he will see that in the final version.

 

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