Clause 62 - Builders' skips: charge for occupation
Traffic Management Bill
5:30 pm
Mr John Mann (Bassetlaw, Labour)
The two amendments that I tabled are merely probing amendments. I seek the Minister's assurance that the legislation will not end up being a cash cow, with which local authorities can keep raising money, while having a disproportionate impact on
communities in terraced housing. It will have a big impact on all current and former mining areas, in which getting work done on one's house means having a skip on the road because there is nowhere else for it to go.
I seek assurance that local authorities will not be able use the legislation deliberately or inadvertently in a way that will have a disproportionate impact on people who live in what is by far the lowest value housing and who, I suggest, are in the least well-off sections of society.