An imaginatively titled blog if ever there was one.
For those of you who don't know, or prefer not to care and perhaps simply don't care, Carl Sargeant is the Minister with main responsibility for Planning here in Wales.
Yesterday he gave a speech to Cabinet setting out his proposals to 'stimulate' housebuilding here in the principality. Some of the fine detail is yet to emerge, and as soon as it is we will let you know. The key points are:
- Stimulating house-building across sectors.
- Changing C02 emissions requirement under Part L of the Building Regulations from 40% reduction on 2010 levels to 8% of same. Some detail here. We note it 'giveth' on one hand and taketh on the other (requiring minimum standards of insulation on new domestic extensions and requiring conservatories to be neither heated nor cooled.)
- Implementing the Domestic Fire Safety Measure 2011 from April 2014 in care homes, hostels, halls of residence an similar schemes. New and converted houses and flats from April 2016.
- Bringing forward a shared equity (help to buy Cymru) scheme later in 2013 and working to deliver a HomeBuy Cymru scheme.
- Reviewing the content (and need for) TAN 22.
- Revising householder PD rights from end of September 2013 (we cant yet find the draft SI)
- Requiring LA to update LHMA's by April 2016 - it would help perhaps for some to have vaguely completed one even now!
As ever, actions speak louder than words and we impress on WG and LPA's the need to ensure sufficient permissions and land supply is in place to allow viable delivery, not least as recent research shows a significant shortfall against the required 5 years supply.
Pete
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