Dromey: Labour Will Oppose Section 106 Axe

Labour will oppose the ‘weakening’ of section 106 agreements and is in favour of grant funding for social housing, the shadow housing minister has said.  In a speech to the National Housing Federation conference in Birmingham, Jack Dromey said Labour will put housing, jobs and growth ‘centre-stage’.  Mr Dromey attacked the government for allowing section 106 agreements, which require developers to include affordable housing in developments, to be waived where schemes are unviable.  He said: ‘It is absolutely wrong for the government to rob communities and councils of their ability to use section 106 to insist on affordable house building in any development.  ‘We cannot have, especially in our big cities, this dangerous drift [towards] the residualisation of social housing.’ Read more on Inside Housing.