Written evidence to be reported to the House
Housing and Regeneration Bill
10:58 am
Sir Simon Milton: I think that it certainly would be beneficial to bring together the two roles of the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships, but we do not want to create a sort of behemoth quango that is slow to work on the ground. The view of the Local Government Association is that housing is crucial to creating successful places and that councils are the best placed bodies to deliver strategic housing. They not only have a democratic mandate, and therefore some consent from their communities, but they are best placed to bring together all the different elements to ensure successful and sustainable places, not simply to churn out numbers.