Thursday, 25 October 2012

Housing: Construction – Parliamentary Written Answer

Hilary Benn: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) how many new homes are stalled due to site viability under section 106 in each local authority in England
(2) what the evidential basis is for his estimate of the number of new homes stalled due to site viability under section 106. 
Mr Prisk: According to the Glenigan database, there are approximately 75,000 housing units:
“currently stalled due to sites being commercially unviable.”
Section 106 agreements are locally negotiated and circumstances will vary greatly from site to site. Information on the impact of local, Section 106 requirements on individual site viability is therefore not centrally held. However, we expect our measures to create an incentive for developers to review schemes and bring forward those which would benefit from revised Section 106 provisions.

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