{"id":70550,"date":"2016-05-13T15:16:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a8d41f900dae313d9094e1e4996cf845"},"modified":"2016-05-13T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:16:51","slug":"news-story-landmark-housing-and-planning-bill-receives-royal-assent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=70550","title":{"rendered":"News story: Landmark Housing and Planning Bill receives Royal Assent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>New measures to help more people buy their own home and get houses built faster became law today (13 May 2016) as the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2015-16\/housingandplanning.html\">Housing and Planning Act<\/a> received Royal Assent.<\/p>\n<p>The Act sets out a clear determination from the government to keep the country building while giving hard working families every opportunity to unlock the door to home ownership.<\/p>\n<p>It will give housebuilders and decision-makers the tools and confidence to provide more homes and further streamline the planning system to accelerate their delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The measures include underpinning the voluntary Right to Buy agreement with housing associations, supporting the doubling of the number of custom and self-build homes by 2020, tackling rogue landlords and speeding up the neighbourhood planning process.<\/p>\n<p>Housing and Planning Minister Brandon Lewis said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our landmark Housing and Planning Act will help anyone who aspires to own their own home achieve their dream.<\/p>\n<p>It will increase housing supply alongside home ownership building on the biggest affordable house building program since the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The act will contribute to transforming generation rent into generation buy, helping us towards achieving our ambition of delivering 1 million new homes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Act will:<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"help-more-people-own-their-own-home\">Help more people own their own home<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>help more people own their own home by extending <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/righttobuy.gov.uk\/\">Right to Buy<\/a> level discounts to housing association tenants  \u2013 measures underpinning the Voluntary Agreement with the National Housing Federation<\/li>\n<li>place a duty on local planning authorities to actively promote the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/starter-homes-local-authority-funding-programme\">Starter Homes<\/a> and embed them in the planning system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"get-the-nation-building-homes-faster\">Get the nation building homes faster<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>unlock brownfield land to provide homes faster, requiring local authorities to prepare, maintain and publish local registers of specified land<\/li>\n<li>support the doubling of the number of custom-built and self-built homes to 20,000 by 2020<\/li>\n<li>ensure that every area has a local plan<\/li>\n<li>reform the compulsory purchase process to make it clearer, fairer and faster<\/li>\n<li>simplify and speed up neighbourhood planning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"ensure-the-way-housing-is-managed-is-fair-and-fit-for-the-future\">Ensure the way housing is managed is fair and fit for the future<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>require social tenants on higher incomes to pay fairer rents<\/li>\n<li>place a duty on councils to consider selling their higher value housing assets when they fall vacant<\/li>\n<li>tackle rogue landlords though a number of measures to give local authorities more powers<\/li>\n<li>better local information on the private rented sector \u2013 allowing local authorities to access data held by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/tenancy-deposit-protection\">Tenancy Deposit Protection schemes<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>reduce the regulatory controls for private registered providers of housing to increase their freedoms to manage their housing stock efficiently and effectively<\/li>\n<li>enable lead enforcement authority for estate agents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h2>\n<p>See the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/services.parliament.uk\/bills\/2015-16\/housingandplanning.html\">Housing and Planning Bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/about\/how\/laws\/passage-bill\/\">how a Bill is taken through Parliament<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_40\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Office address and general enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">2 Marsham Street<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLondon<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">SW1P 4DF<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"contact_form_url\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Contact form<\/span><br \/>\n              <a href=\"http:\/\/forms.communities.gov.uk\/\">http:\/\/forms.communiti&#8230;<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">General enquiries:  please use this number if you are a member of the public<\/span><br \/>\n              030 3444 0000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_171\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:press.office@communities.gsi.gov.uk\">press.office@communities.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Please use this number if you&#8217;re a journalist wishing to speak to Press Office<\/span><br \/>\n              030 3444 1201\n            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