Further written evidence to be reported to the House
Housing and Regeneration Bill
12:00 pm
Alistair Burt (Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; North East Bedfordshire, Conservative)
I appreciate what you have said in fleshing out your memorandum. I think that you will be pleased with an amendment that we have already tabled, which mentions community land trusts. We might explore that with the Minister this afternoon to see whether is interested in helping with that amendment.
There has been a lot of focus on urban building, and I was interested in what you said about the provision of housing in rural areas, but of course that always raises more concern about land take and so on. Do you think that there is any way in which those two important concerns can be reconciled through the Bill? Will the Bill help to deal with the problems of green belt pressure while meeting the need for affordable housing in rural areas, or is there something in particular that you would like to see inserted that would enable those two issues not to conflict but to deliver what people want?