Committee questions Government officials on built environment

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Witnesses

Thursday 16 July, Committee Room 2, Palace of Westminster.

At 10:45am

• Gill Graham, Head of Heritage, Department for Culture Media and Sport
• Bob Ledsome, Deputy Director, Building Regulations and Standards
• Steve Quartermain, Department for Communities and Local Government, Chief Planner
• Ruth Stanier, Department for Communities and Local Government, Director of Planning

Areas of discussion

• How is the government taking forward the recommendations of the Farrell Review of Architecture and the Built Environment?
• Why does the UK consistently fail to meet house building targets?
• How does the government intend to take forward its new proposals for prioritising the development of brownfield land?
• What will be the effect of new proposals to allow additional stories to be added to buildings in London without planning permission?
• Why responsibility for architecture and design recently moved from DCLG from DCMS, and what benefits the government thinks this will achieve?
• Whether England should have a national spatial plan?
• Are new housing and commercial developments of a satisfactory quality? Are they sufficiently sustainable, resilient and lasting?

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