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House of Commons

Thursday 17th January 2008

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Other Amendments not tabled within the required notice period are marked thus

Housing and Regeneration Bill

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Note

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

Committee [11th December 2007].

Sir George Young

156

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  12,  leave out subsection (1).

Mr Iain Wright

109

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  12,  leave out from ‘HCA’ to end of line 14 and insert

‘acquires, constructs or converts any housing or other land for use as low cost rental

accommodation’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

51

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  13,  leave out ‘low cost rental accommodation’ and insert

‘social housing’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

52

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  15,  leave out ‘low cost rental accommodation’ and insert

‘social housing’.

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Alistair Burt

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

67

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  15,  after ‘ensure’, insert ‘either’.

Alistair Burt

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

68

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  17,  at end insert ‘or that a relevant provider of low cost

rental accommodation is the manager and another person is the landlord of the

accommodation’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

53

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  19,  leave out ‘low cost rental accommodation’ and insert

‘social housing’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

54

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  21,  leave out ‘low cost rental accommodation’ and insert

‘social housing’.

Alistair Burt

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

69

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  21,  after ‘condition’, insert ‘either’.

Alistair Burt

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

70

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  23,  at end insert ‘or that a relevant provider of low cost

rental accommodation is the manager and another person is the landlord of the

accommodation’.

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Mr Nick Raynsford

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

55

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  25,  leave out ‘low cost rental accommodation’ and insert

‘social housing’.

Alistair Burt

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

71

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  26,  after ‘ensuring’, insert ‘either’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

56

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  27,  leave out ‘low cost rental accommodation’ and insert

‘social housing’.

Alistair Burt

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

72

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  28,  at end insert ‘or that a relevant provider of low cost

rental accommodation is the manager and another person is the landlord of the

accommodation’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

57

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  30,  leave out ‘low cost rental accommodation’ and insert

‘social housing’.

Alistair Burt

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

73

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  31,  after ‘ensuring’, insert ‘either’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

58

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  32,  leave out ‘low cost rental accommodation’ and insert

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‘social housing’.

Alistair Burt

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

74

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  33,  at end insert ‘or that the relevant provider of low cost

rental accommodation is the manager and another person is the landlord of the

accommodation’.

Mr Iain Wright

110

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  33,  at end insert—

‘( )	For the purposes of this section, a person provides low cost rental accommodation

if (and only if) the person acquires, constructs or converts any housing or other

land for use as low cost rental accommodation or ensures such acquisition,

construction or conversion by another.’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

59

Clause  35,  page  15,  leave out line 38 and insert ‘“social housing” has the meaning

given by section 67.’.

Mr Iain Wright

111

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  40,  leave out from ‘authority’ to end of line 41 and insert

‘a county council in England or a person controlled by an English local housing authority

or county council in England (and regulations under subsections (5) and (6) of section 110

apply for the purposes of this definition as they apply for the purposes of subsection (4)

of that section)’.

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Alistair Burt

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

5

Clause  35,  page  15,  line  41,  at end add—

‘(10)

In exercising its powers under sections 31 to 47 the HCA shall have regard to the

powers of the Mayor under sections 333A to 333D of the Greater London

Authority Act 1999 (c. 29).’.

Mr Iain Wright

112

Clause  36,  page  16,  line  25,  after ‘project)’ insert ‘; and, for the purposes of this

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Part, a person provides social housing if (and only if) the person acquires, constructs,

converts, improves or repairs any housing or other land for use as social housing or

ensures such acquisition, construction, conversion, improvement or repair by another’.

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Alistair Burt

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

6

Clause  38,  page  17,  line  25,  leave out ‘as it considers appropriate’ and insert

‘before making such a determination’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

158

Clause  47,  page  20,  line  23,  after ‘project’, insert ‘or projects.’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

159

Clause  47,  page  20,  line  25,  after ‘project’, insert ‘or projects.’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

160

Clause  47,  page  20,  line  26,  after ‘project’, insert ‘or projects.’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

161

Clause  47,  page  20,  line  29,  after ‘project’, insert ‘or projects.’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

162

Clause  47,  page  20,  line  30,  after ‘project’, insert ‘or projects.’.

Mr Nick Raynsford

157

Clause  50,  page  21,  line  36,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

Any consent given under subsection (1) shall specify the circumstances in which

the HCA or (as the case may be) the other person to whom the consent is given,

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may dispose of land for less than the best consideration which can reasonably be

obtained where this facilitates the objects of this HCA as defined in section 2.’.

Andrew George

Lembit Öpik

36

Clause  54,  page  23,  line  17,  at end insert—

‘(3A)

The Secretary of State shall make provision for the continuation of the functions

of the Commission for the New Towns in respect of workshops and industrial

building, through the transfer of those functions to another authority.’.

Mr Iain Wright

113

Clause  60,  page  27,  line  24,  leave out

‘Social Housing

Section 36(8)’

and insert

‘Social Housing (and its provision)

Section 36(8)’.

Sir George Young

134

Clause  67,  page  31,  line  27,  leave out from ‘means—’ to end of line 29 and insert

‘Housing that is in direct receipt of Government Capital Grant Funding.’.

New clauses relating to part 1

Definition of “Community land trust”

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Alistair Burt

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

nc1

To move the following Clause:—

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‘“Community land trust” means a non-profit organisation which is an industrial

and provident society, a company limited by guarantee or other incorporated

body whose governing instrument contains provisions to the following effect—

(a)	the primary purpose of the organisation is to hold land and other assets in

order to promote the social, economic and environmental sustainability

of a specified local geographic community by providing or facilitating

the provision of affordable or other sub-market housing or other

community-based facilities and services,

(b)	the organisation will not dispose of its land and other assets save in the

furtherance of its objectives as set out in paragraph (a),

(c)	the membership of the organisation is open to organisations which are

located in or persons whose principal place of residence, work or

business is located in the specified community the organisation is

established to serve (although the organisation may have different classes

of membership),

(d)	over 50 per cent. of the governing body is elected by the members of the

organisation,

(e)	the organisation is accountable to the local community through annual

reporting or otherwise, and is responsive to the local community’s needs

and to representations made on its behalf, and

(f)	it is an organisation established to help enable the community and those

who live or work there to benefit from the land or other assets it holds.’.

Restrictions on powers

Grant Shapps

Robert Neill

Mr Eric Pickles

Alistair Burt

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Mr Paul Goodman

nc2

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	Nothing in Part 1 shall allow the HCA to develop or facilitate the development of

green belt land.

(2)	The HCA shall not provide or facilitate the development of housing before

infrastructure has been provided or facilitated under section 7.

(3)	Before exercising its powers under sections 5 to 7 the HCA shall consult with the

local authorities in the areas where such powers are to be exercised.

(4)	In this section “green belt land” shall be construed in accordance with section

87(1)(e) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.’.

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