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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local authorities have an obligation to seek all relevant information before imposing a Community Infrastructure Levy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will introduce an independent arbitrator for disputes between local authorities and planning applicants over exemption from a Community Infrastructure Levy.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether a local authority must rescind a liability notice for a Community Infrastructure Levy when the planning applicant having started construction subsequently provides eviden...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department has issued to local authorities in the event that a planning applicant indicates they have an exemption from the Community Infrastructure Levy but do...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether UK Finance has officially acknowledged that leaseholders of residential properties without external cladding do not need to provide an EWS1 form to finance, remortgage or...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure all people who were homeless before the covid-19 outbreak and subsequently accommodated continue to receive housing support.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that protections afforded under the Coronavirus Act (2020) to tenants in the private and social rented sectors are not removed without impact asse...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance he has issued to local councillors on considering planning applications over the internet.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to respond to the Law Commission’s three reports on reforming residential leasehold and commonhold, published on 21 July 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the recommendation of the Construction Industry Council's interim report entitled, Raising the Bar, published in August 2019, if he will make it his policy to e...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will introduce a model similar to Flood Re for fire risk assessments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if his Department will create an online publicly accessible portal of all residential buildings with external cladding systems.
ORIGINAL: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will allocate additional resources to his £1.6 billion fund to remove and replace unsafe non-ACM cladding systems on high-rise residential buildings to include in...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of applying a risk-based approach to the use of his Department’s £1 billion fund to remove and replace unsafe non-ACM cladding...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on interested parties of developments of sub-18 metre buildings of the provisions of his Department's Guidance of 20 January...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will hold discussions with representatives of the British Standards Institution on creating a British Standard for fire safety inspections of building cladding systems.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when Michael Wade's recommendations to Government on (a) funding solutions to protect leaseholders from unaffordable costs of fixing historic defects and (b) insurance issues aro...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of building owners of properties with unsafe non-ACM cladding systems on high-rise residential buildings have registered for his Department’s £1 billion fund anno...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of residential blocks of over 18 metres in height which have unsafe cladding in (a) England, (b) London, (c) the Hendon consti...
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an assessment of the average cost of patrolled fire security for leaseholders in residential properties higher than 18 metres.