Local Growth Deals
This note looks at the creation of the Single Local Growth Fund and the process of allocating Growth Deal funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships.

This pack has been produced ahead of the debate to be held of the General Debate to be held in the Commons Chamber on Tuesday 6 February 2018 on Housing, Planning and the Green Belt. The subject for this debate has been selected by the Backbench Business Committee.
Commons Library debate pack - Housing, planning and the Green Belt (797 KB , PDF)
The subject for this debate has been chosen by the Backbench Business Committee at the request of Mr Laurence Robertson MP.
Mr Robertson told the Committee that he wanted to raise the following issues:
Given that the Government have made housing one of their priorities – we hear a lot about the broken housing market and the housing crisis – there is a need for a debate to put this in perspective. I do not think that the crisis or problem is in every area across the country; it is more acute in certain areas than other. Also, we are taking our eye off the type of housing needed. There are lots of three, four and five-bedroom houses being build, when perhaps what we need is two-bedroom houses, but planning guidance policy does not seem to allow for the right direction to be given.
His submission went on to highlight:
The full submission is on the Committee’s website.
Commons Library debate pack - Housing, planning and the Green Belt (797 KB , PDF)
This note looks at the creation of the Single Local Growth Fund and the process of allocating Growth Deal funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships.
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