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EnactedHousing and Planning Act 2016

Proposed amendments

60 amendments across 16 provisions

Clause 1 3

Amendment #718#718WithdrawnAmends text
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after second “of” insert “new homes across all tenures, including”
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #1025#1025WithdrawnAmends text
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after “promote” insert “home ownership and”
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Lord Tope
Amendment #1026#1026Not movedAmends text
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“Home ownership” means the holding of a legal estate by a home owner in a home or in a share of a home.
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Lord Tope

Clause 2 22

Amendment #719#719WithdrawnAmends text
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leave out from “a” to end and insert “price no higher than is affordable to a household receiving the median local household income, with affordability to be determined by the relevant local authority,”
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #720#720Not movedAmends text
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after “cap,” insert—
is not to be sold to buy-to-let investors,”
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #721#721WithdrawnAmends text
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after “cap,” insert—
is built on under-used or unviable brownfield sites not currently identified for housing on public and private land, as determined by the local authority,”
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #722#722Not movedAmends text
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lives or works locally.”
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #723#723Not movedAmends text
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after “State” insert “, after consultation with the relevant local authority or local authorities, or the Mayor of London, as appropriate, ”
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #724#724Not movedAmends text
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at end insert “(and in respect of which the discount remains in perpetuity),”
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #799#799Not movedAmends text
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References to a starter home shall not include any dwelling which forms part of a housing regeneration scheme.
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Baroness Doocey
Amendment #812#812Not movedAmends text
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The meaning of “locally” in subsection (3) shall be defined by the relevant local authority or the Greater London Authority.”
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #890#890Not movedAmends text
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may be purchased through a rent-to-buy arrangement as well as by direct purchase,”
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Lord Lansley
Amendment #912#912Not movedAmends text
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after “cap,” insert—
is subject to a restriction requiring repayment of the 20% discount, reduced by 1% for each year of occupation by the purchaser, for a period of 20 years,”
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Lord Best
Amendment #988#988AgreedAmends text
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leave out “has any other characteristics” and insert “meets any other criteria”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #989#989AgreedAmends text
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after “regulations” insert “—
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #990#990AgreedAmends text
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disapply the age requirement in subsection (3)(b) in relation to specified categories of people;
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #991#991AgreedAmends text
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at end insert—
Before making regulations under subsection (8) the Secretary of State must consult—

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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #992#992AgreedAmends text
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at end insert—
Regulations under this section may amend this Chapter.”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #994#994WithdrawnAmends text
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after “purchase” insert “via a mortgage”
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Lord Shipley
Amendment #995#995Not movedAmends text
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at end insert “, which shall include a requirement regarding the occupation of the dwelling by the first-time buyer as his or her principal residence.”
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Lord Shipley
Amendment #1325#1325Not movedAmends text
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Regulations shall provide that the discount specified in subsection (1)(c) shall continue to be applied to the sale price of the relevant starter home on every subsequent sale of that dwelling (including, but not limited to, any sale of the property after the initial five year period).”
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Lord Shipley
Amendment #1344#1344AgreedAmends text
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is subject to a restriction requiring repayment of the 20% discount, reduced by 1/20th for each year of occupation by the purchaser, for a period of 20 years,”
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Lord Best
Amendment #1381#1381AgreedAmends text
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leave out “under” and insert “at least 23 years old but has not yet reached”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1382#1382AgreedAmends text
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leave out “or minimum age”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1415#1415Not movedAmends text
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at end insert “whether effected with a mortgage or by means of a contractual agreement to buy, using a shared ownership or rent-to-buy arrangement”
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Lord Lansley

Clause 3 3

Amendment #1341#1341WithdrawnAmends text
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after “homes” insert “and other types of social and affordable housing”
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Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Amendment #1461#1461Not movedAmends text
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after “homes” insert “, other home ownership products and affordable homes to rent,”
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Lord Kennedy of Southwark
Amendment #1465#1465Not movedAmends text
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at end insert—
In addition to its duty under subsection (1) in relation to starter homes, an English planning authority must also ensure that there is an adequate supply of affordable homes in its area for—

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The Earl of Listowel

Clause 4 6

Amendment #1345#1345Not movedAmends text
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Age-restricted housing schemes for older persons will be exempt from any requirement to provide starter homes.”
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Lord Best
Amendment #1350#1350AgreedAmends text
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leave out subsection (1) and insert—
An English planning authority may only grant planning permission for a residential development having had regard to the provision of starter homes based on its own assessment of local housing need and viability.”
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Lord Kerslake
Amendment #1351#1351AgreedAmends text
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leave out subsection (3)
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Lord Kerslake
Amendment #1377#1377Not movedNew clause / schedule
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Insert the following new Clause—
“Planning obligations: starter homes (No. 2)

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Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Amendment #1378#1378WithdrawnNew clause / schedule
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Insert the following new Clause—
“Planning obligations: starter homes

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Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
Amendment #1447#1447WithdrawnAmends text
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The regulations shall confer discretion on an English planning authority to exclude starter homes on rural exception sites.
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Lord Cameron of Dillington

Clause 13 2

Amendment #1383#1383AgreedAmends text
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leave out “companies” and insert “bodies corporate”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1441#1441WithdrawnAmends text
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at end insert—
This section shall not come into force until at least one year after the publication of a draft of regulations to be made under subsection (3).”
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Baroness Gardner of Parkes

Clause 17 4

Amendment #1384#1384AgreedAmends text
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leave out “company” and insert “body corporate”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1385#1385AgreedAmends text
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leave out “company” and insert “body corporate”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1386#1386AgreedAmends text
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leave out “company” and insert “body corporate”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1387#1387AgreedAmends text
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leave out “company” and insert “body corporate”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford

Clause 54 1

Amendment #1739#1739AgreedAmends text
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at end insert—
But a person is not a property manager for the purposes of this Part if the person engages in English property management work in the course of that person’s employment under a contract of employment.”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford

Clause 73 6

Amendment #1763#1763AgreedAmends text
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leave out subsections (2) and (3) and insert—
The terms and conditions of an agreement must include—

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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1764#1764AgreedAmends text
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leave out “require” and insert “include terms and conditions requiring”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1765#1765AgreedAmends text
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after “responsible” insert “by terms and conditions”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1766#1766AgreedAmends text
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after “subsection” insert “(3) or”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1768#1768AgreedAmends text
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If a local housing authority so wishes, and that authority can demonstrate, whether by reference to its local housing plan or otherwise, that there is a need in its area for social housing of the kind that it proposes to build, the Secretary of State shall enter into an agreement with that authority whereby it shall retain such part of the payment as may be required to fund the provision of a new dwelling to be let as social housing on terms (as to tenure, rent or otherwise) which are similar to those on which the old dwelling was let.”
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Lord Kerslake
Amendment #1769#1769WithdrawnAmends text
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In subsection (3), after “dwelling” insert “in the same local plan area”
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Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville

Clause 80 1

Amendment #1738#1738AgreedAmends text
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make provision for the level of household income, for the purposes of defining “high income”, to be increased every three years to reflect any increase in the consumer price index.”
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Lord Beecham

Clause 115 1

Amendment #1740#1740AgreedAmends text
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leave out “means the objectives in” and insert “is to be read in accordance with”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford

Clause 150 2

Amendment #1741#1741AgreedAmends text
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leave out from beginning to end of line 6 on page 78 and insert—
Permission in principle granted by a development order takes effect—

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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1742#1742AgreedAmends text
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at end insert—
In section 333 of that Act (regulations and orders), after subsection (3) insert—

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Baroness Williams of Trafford

Clause 154 1

Amendment #1743#1743AgreedAmends text
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after “area” insert “in England”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford

Clause 181 1

Amendment #1744#1744AgreedAmends text
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leave out subsection (4)
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Baroness Williams of Trafford

Clause 196 1

Amendment #1745#1745AgreedAmends text
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leave out “end of the period mentioned in section 52(4)” and insert “last day on which payment could have been made in accordance with section 52(4) or (4ZA)”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford

Clause 214 1

Amendment #1767#1767AgreedAmends text
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after “section” insert “68(8),”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford

Schedule 7 5

Amendment #1746#1746AgreedAmends text
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at end insert—
introductory tenancies of dwellings in England granted on or after the day on which paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Housing and Planning Act 2016 comes fully into force;”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1747#1747AgreedAmends text
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leave out “place” and insert “places”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1748#1748AgreedAmends text
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at end insert—
“““introductory tenancy” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 5 of the Housing Act 1996;””
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1749#1749AgreedAmends text
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leave out “5” and insert “10”
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Baroness Williams of Trafford
Amendment #1750#1750AgreedAmends text
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leave out line 16 and insert—
no longer than the permitted maximum length.”
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7
Baroness Williams of Trafford