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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government – in the House of Commons at 10:30 am on 15 July 2010.

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Photo of Martin Horwood Martin Horwood Liberal Democrat, Cheltenham 10:30, 15 July 2010

The coalition's policy of letting local authorities plan for local housing need is very welcome, but the previous Government's requirement of them to display five years' supply of land for housing need before they could fight off overdevelopment on green spaces was lopsided, unfair and unsustainable. Will Ministers meet councillors and campaigners from Gloucestershire to hear the case for abolishing it?