Briefings and responses

Local government can play a central role in meeting targets and the wider demand for housing.

Councils work in partnership with investors and landlords of all tenures to raise standards across the private rented sector.

Councils are delivering homelessness strategies that seek to respond to local conditions.

Local authorities are responsible for preventing the most vulnerable migrants from falling into destitution and homelessness.

We are calling for Government to work collaboratively with councils throughout any transfer of ownership to a private company.

Faced with increasing demand, reducing budgets, falling social housing and wide-ranging welfare reforms, it is clear that councils cannot tackle this challenge alone.

Local authorities have the ultimate responsibility to support, safeguard, care for and house vulnerable members of their community.

House of Commons, Public Bill Committee, Tuesday 25 October 2016 Key messages

We support Amendment 23 tabled by Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP,Teresa Pearce MP and Jim McMahon MP. This would remove from the Bill all the provisions relating to restrictions of the use of planning conditions by local planning authorities

Local government shares the Government's ambition to increase housing supply. Councils want to play a lead role in building new homes and support measures that will enable councils to capture the value from increased land prices on land they acquire for development.