Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 2:18 pm on 1 February 2017.
Suzy Davies
Conservative
2:18,
1 February 2017
Last week you mentioned that some Vibrant and Viable Places projects were going to be getting more money because of underspends in other areas, which strikes me as slightly odd, that some local authorities seem be quite bad at following guidelines if some are underspending and others haven’t got enough money. Because we’re not talking just about replacing falling-down car parks here; we’re talking about something that interests me very much: lifelong living and the housing supply that would meet that. So, are you planning to use any of this underspend to target specific projects, and particularly the kind of housing that can brought into city centres, which isn’t just affordable housing and then nothing else, but something that has a lifelong throughput to it?
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