Clause 42
Housing and Regeneration Bill
10:00 am
Robert Syms (Poole, Conservative)
Over recent years, we have seen the importance of involving communities, particularly disadvantaged communities, on many of the larger estates. I am thinking of places such as Castle Vale in Birmingham, where major schemes have involved tenants and communities. Does the Minister envisage that an element of the measure could be to help train community members to be advocates for their communities and put forward what people want at grass roots, so that when there are development schemes, one is better able to drill down, there is no top-down process and the HCA does its best to involve local communities and get community members to say what their communities want in the way of redevelopment and sustainability?