Insight
Housing: How is need assessed?
This Insight explores proposed changes to the formula used by Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) to use to assess housing need.
Insight
This Insight explores proposed changes to the formula used by Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) to use to assess housing need.
Research Briefing
This paper considers how English local authorities deal with private tenants who have been served with a section 21 notice and are about to become homeless.
Debate Pack
This pack has been prepared ahead of the debate to be held in Westminster Hall at 2.30pm on Wednesday 17 March 2020 on the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework and the green belt. The debate will be opened by James Daly MP.
Insight
The Government’s rough sleeping statistics received a lot of attention when they were published in February this year.
Debate Pack
This pack has been prepared ahead of the debate to be held in Westminster Hall at 2.30pm on Tuesday 3 March 2020 on housing and planning. The debate will be opened by Neil O'Brien MP.
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Does your demographic background affect how you vote?
Debate Pack
On Wednesday 29 January 2020, there will be an opposition day debate on homelessness. This page brings together relevant library briefings on homelessness, and recent statistics and comment on the topic.
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The most pressing challenge facing the housing sector is to achieve a sustained increase in housebuilding
Debate Pack
This pack has been prepared ahead of the debate to be held in Westminster Hall on Wednesday 30 October 2019 at 9.30am on building out extant planning permissions. The debate will be opened by Anne Milton MP.
Research Briefing
Rough sleepers are one of the most vulnerable groups in society, many with high levels of complex and interrelated needs. This paper provides an overview of the support and services - including accommodation, health, welfare, training, employment and voter registration - that are available for rough sleepers in England, and the challenges rough sleepers can face in accessing them.
Research Briefing
This briefing examines the relationship between planning officers and councillors and how published guidance deals with the considerations that might arise when planning committees overturn officers’ advice. It applies to England only.
Debate Pack
On 5 September 2019 there will be a debate on a motion on the British house building industry. The debate will take place in the main Chamber and will be led by Siobhain McDonagh.
Insight
We look at the issues surrounding leaseholds and where they are most likely to take place.
Research Briefing
The Census (Return of Particulars and Removal of Penalties) Bill [HL] 2017-19 is a Government Bill that provides for voluntary questions on sexual orientation and gender identity to be included in the census in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Research Briefing
This Commons Library briefing paper deals with the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill 2017-19 which would remove the legal requirement to make allegations about spousal conduct or to have lived separately for up to five years in order to divorce or dissolve a civil partnership. A separate Commons Library briefing paper deals with the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill[HL] 2019-21 (CBP 8697)
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